Space Odyssey: From Rocket Engines to Hair Dryers and Back Again
Lolan Naicker explains his unconventional career path to Adam Duckett, from daydreaming in lectur...
Features
We asked 100 engineers...
Each month, members of the TCE reader feedback panel share their views on stories impacting the w...
The Politics of Chemicals: How a Lithium Plant Won Over a Community
Adam Duckett speaks to John McKay, a ward councillor using his engineering experience to help t...
Built on Strong Foundations
Adam Duckett on the rich opportunities open to those with a chemical engineering education
Editing the Bible
Adam Duckett speaks with Don Green, the retiring editor of Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook
Survive and Thrive
Adam Duckett says we need targeted support for chemicals old and new
Full-bore Biotech
Adam Duckett speaks to the University of Warwick researchers who are recoding microbes into compe...
Who Will Win Your Vote?
Ahead of the coming Trustee elections, we asked the six candidates to introduce themselves and sh...
We asked 100 engineers...
Each month, members of the TCE reader feedback panel share their views on stories impacting the w...
We asked the TCE Reader Feedback Panel...
You have your say on Trump
Precision Pays Off: How Nanotechnology Promises to Improve Cancer Tests
Chemical engineer Paula Mendes talks to Adam Duckett about her big ambitions for tiny tech
Upstream Unseen
Adam Duckett on life-changing innovation and a call for readers to share what inspires them
Engineering an End to PFAS
Adam Duckett talks about engineering an end to PFAS
Destroying PFAS… and environmental anxiety
Luke Henderson talks to Adam Duckett about his work scaling up a plasma torch system to destroy PFAS
Making a Clean Getaway
With our energy systems going through profound change, Adam Duckett asked chemical engineers who ...
A Galvanising Moment?
Adam Duckett on how materials innovation hinges on much wider collaboration
What is Your Engineering New Year’s Resolution?
As we prepare to step into 2025, we asked readers what New Year’s Resolutions they are setting fo...
Top Tips for Young Engineers Entering the YEAIS Awards
With IChemE’s Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability (YEAIS) now open for nomin...
Contributions and Resolutions
Adam Duckett on why the COP failure is an opportunity for engineers
Help shape IChemE’s future (and your own)
With elections for IChemE’s Board of Trustees and Congress scheduled for April, Adam Duckett caug...
AI: Part of the Master’s Plan
Adam Duckett speaks to Tina Düren and Bernardo Castro Dominguez about the University of Bath’s ne...
Gold from Gadgets
The Royal Mint’s Tony Baker and Julian Cox explain to Adam Duckett how a solution in a beaker was...
AI Prizes and Warnings
Adam Duckett looks at the increasing adoption of AI, for better or worse
Milestone Issues
Adam Duckett reflects on TCE’s milestone issue
How Your Magazine is Made: Printing
To capture the key stages of how your copy of TCE is manufactured, Adam Duckett hot-footed it to ...
Calling All Students
Adam Duckett throws it open to readers to shape TCE
Five minutes with… Health Researcher Hannah Leese
Adam Duckett speaks to the Nicklin Medal winner about needles and nominations, and discovers th...
Focusing on the Future
Adam Duckett is reassured by the early signals from the new UK government as parliament welcomes ...
Polarised Positions Cast Shadow Over Global Plastics Treaty
Adam Duckett speaks to lobbyists about what they want from a global agreement to end plastic poll...
Go Big, Start Now
Adam Duckett on why solving the world’s grand challenges needs even grander vision – and how you ...
Mammoth Undertaking
As Climeworks starts up the world’s largest direct air capture plant, Adam Duckett looks at the e...
Direct Air Capture: The State of Play and What’s to Come
An introduction to direct air capture
Who Will Win Your Vote in the Trustee Elections?
With voting set to close at 09:30 BST on 16 May, you are running out of time to help decide IChem...
Sharing the Burden of Impostor Syndrome
Adam Duckett on why it’s good to talk about impostor syndrome
Bringing Biomass to the Masses
A flagbearer for biotech companies looking to replace petroleum-based chemicals with plant-based ...
Microplastics Explainer
MICROPLASTICS are being found across the world and even in our bodies. Want to know what they are...
Let’s Go Round Again: Closing the Loop on Problem Plastics
With today’s Earth Day campaign calling for action on plastic production, Adam Duckett talks to J...
Beware the Banana
Adam Duckett gets two of his five-a-day while asking for more systems thinking from politicians o...
A Working Definition
Adam Duckett on what actually constitutes a chemical engineer
Palm Oil in Numbers
Palm oil's impact and benefits in numbers
Sharing the Secrets of Greener Palm Oil
Adam Duckett interviews researchers working to optimise the palm oil sector
Capturing Science to Capture Attention
MIT photographer Felice Frankel talks to Adam Duckett about her new guide to help engineers bette...
A Taste of Industry before Uni
Susan Ojo tells Adam Duckett about how her industrial placement is benefiting her studies
Scaling Up Experience
Adam Duckett on how we can inspire chemical engineers of the future
Back to the Future
Adam Duckett on engineers and readers predicting and shaping the future
Entering the Metaverse to Make Giant Leaps in Engineering
Industry needs to take risks on supercomputing, Rob Akers tells Adam Duckett
Mapping Icons
A single to Nigel Hirst, please. Travelling on the Engineering Icons Tube
Engineering at the Vanguard of Clean Power
Adam Duckett on the ever-evolving timescale for fusion power
The Implications of Generative AI
Adam Duckett sees a bright future for chemical engineering and generative AI, but there are caveats
Using AI: What You've Been Saying
We asked members of TCE’s reader feedback panel to share their experiences of generative AI
A Valuable Experience
Adam Duckett on the value of graduate placements
Waste Away
Adam Duckett on our plastic plight and the efforts of engineers
The Rise of AI
Adam Duckett on the rise of artificial intelligence
Who Will Win Your Vote?
Ahead of the coming Trustee elections, we asked the six candidates to introduce themselves and sh...
Opportunities Knock
Adam Duckett on opportunities for communication and digitalisation
Chemical Looping Diversity: Biofuels, Power, CCS and Chemicals
Adam Duckett and Amanda Jasi speak to engineers who are developing a variety of chemical looping ...
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Adam Duckett on the calls for rapid investment in technology
Watts in Store?
Adam Duckett on the promise of energy storage technologies
Where Beauty Meets Safety
Thiago Ramos talks about his role at L’Oréal, coordinating and implementing the company’s health ...
Flow Batteries: Chemicals Operations that Promise Grid-Scale Storage
Adam Duckett speaks to flow battery innovators about the history of the technology and what’s to ...
New Year, New Opportunities
Adam Duckett on new opportunities
Pore Performance: One 3D-printing firm's ambition to re-engineer membranes
Adam Duckett interviews Tom Pugh and Andrew Walker about Evove’s push to improve separations
Sellafield Digital Twin Project Clinches Top IChemE Award
Adam Duckett reports from this year’s Awards ceremony
Reflect and Project
Adam Duckett recaps an inspirational year
Question Time: Celebrate, Communicate, Inspire
As IChemE wraps up its Centenary year, Adam Duckett looks to the important contributions needed next
We Must Go Round in the Right Circles
Adam Duckett on the need to go around in the right circles
Question Time: Materials
Adam Duckett shares the major talking points from the latest centenary webinar
Materials: Making a Positive Difference
Adam Duckett talks to the engineers developing technologies to reduce the environmental impact of...
Improving Health Outcomes Across the Scale
Adam Duckett on opportunities to improve health
Troubled Waters and Systems Thinking
Adam Duckett on low-water marks and engineering highly-complex systems
Question Time: Built Environment & Transport
A panel of experts speaking at IChemE’s Centenary webinar urged attendees to think and work toget...
Safety: Protecting Plants Against the Environment
Adam Duckett speaks to Steven Fitzgibbon about natural hazard risk reduction
Safety Talk, Safety Action
Adam Duckett on taking action to improve safety
Risk: We've Got it Covered
Mariné Botha and Rachel Ramskill share their experiences of working in risk engineering in the Mi...
Building a Sustainable Future
Kathryn Richardson talks about her role as Area Environment Manager at the Environment Agency in ...
Energy: How to Store It
Adam Duckett looks at promising energy storage options that could help balance the rise of renewa...
Centenary Themes: Energy
At-a-glance information on what's in the fourth of our centenary theme specials
Transition Mettle
Adam Duckett on the varied opportunities for energy transition
Shaping a Better World
Adam Duckett on shaping a better world
Made in Space
Andrew Bacon talks to Adam Duckett about plans to launch feedstocks into space, and bring them ba...
Centenary Themes: Social Experience
At-a-glance information on what's in the third of our centenary theme specials
Centenary Themes: Education
At-a-glance information on what's in the second of our centenary theme specials
Empathy: Enabling students to be entrepreneurs
David Fernandez Rivas talks to Adam Duckett about interacting and taking risks to innovate
Fears over Future Shocks
Adam Duckett on the reverberating shocks from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The Hydrogen Economy Needs You
Emma Houchell talks about her role at Air Products, helping develop technology for the burgeoning...
Clean Steam: Greener distillation processes
Brian Williamson and Chris Jackson talk to Adam Duckett about zero emission closed-loop steam
Sustainable Action
Adam Duckett on sustainability urgency and optimism
Question Time: Sustainability
Experts gather to discuss our discipline’s future in terms of sustainability and the environment
Centenary Themes: Sustainability
At-a-glance information on what's in the first of our centenary theme specials
Taking on Water
Sofia Georgaki describes her role as Process Lead at engineering major Jacobs.
Experts concerned about hydrogen plans form independent advisory group
A COALITION of volunteer engineers, concerned about the misapplication of hydrogen, have formed a...
Pure Processing for Battery Tech
William Hawker discusses his role in commercialising low cost, low emissions processes for produc...
Celebrating 100 Years
Adam Duckett on the turbulent crucible in which IChemE was formed
Recycling Needs You
David Hobson talks about his role in recycling and consulting on developing processes for the cir...
Making Medicines: Safely
Naomi Atkinson talks about her role in ensuring safe and compliant manufacture of therapeutics an...
Poised Precariously
Adam Duckett on the frustrations and relative successes of COP26
Measuring Up
Thomas Machin talks about his pride in developing and delivering novel process measurement techno...
Closing the Plastics Loop
Ivan McCormack discusses his role in the recycling sector, developing a chemical process to clos...
Webinar: Improve the Accuracy of Your Final Analysis
ON 10 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a free webinar to discuss techniques to improve the ...
Future Fit
Liz Hallifax talks about her role at Unilever as Global Process Risk Authority with a focus on di...
Overcoming Inertia
Adam Duckett on the need for action on decarbonisation
A Lot of Bottle
Ella Howells talks about her switch from oil and gas to the drinks industry
A Booster for the Covid Vaccine Rollout
Ranna Eardley-Patel discusses her career path through consumer goods, nanotechnology, biopharmace...
Webinar: Deliver your project on time and in budget – secure treated water
ON 6 October, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss the practical advantages of using...
Time for Change
Adam Duckett on the UK energy crisis and opportunities for change
A Change of Clothes
Tahani Kaldéus talks about her work towards a greener fashion industry
The Signpost to Sustainability
Adam Duckett on the missing elements of the UK’s hydrogen strategy
Re-staking the boundaries
Adam Duckett on setting boundaries
Remaining Relevant in a Changing World
New IChemE President Jane Cutler speaks to Adam Duckett
Industrial Cyber Attacks on the Rise
Adam Duckett discusses the rising threat of cyber attacks
Men as Allies
Adam Duckett asks what are men doing to help support gender diversity and inclusion?
Solving Problems at Scale
Jane Cutler talks to Adam Duckett about her inspirations and quest for skills
Volunteer Spotlight: Zaid Rawi
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Action Plans
Adam Duckett on the US President’s climate push and jobs plan
Webinar: Designing effective emission abatement systems
ON 28 April, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar about using data analytics to design the most...
Call and Response
Adam Duckett on member feedback
Fukushima in Numbers
The Fukushima disaster in numbers
How on Earth
Adam Duckett on Fukushima and the future of nuclear
Search Light
Adam Duckett on searching for the positive news
Webinar: Robust Design Optimisation of a Multistage Compressor for Surge Avoidance
ON 13 January, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how simulation software can be u...
Webinar: Improving Vacuum Distillation Profitability
ON 26 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar on how mobile refrigeration can be used to...
Feedback Loops
Adam Duckett on the changes being forced upon us by Covid-19.
Volunteer Spotlight: Johan Alimin Samad
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Webinar: The Digital Transformation of Process Engineering
ON 28 October, The Chemical Engineer is hosting a webinar to discuss the digital transformation o...
Skill Up
Adam Duckett on the opportunity to boost your skills
Quickly, More Vaccines
Chris Lucas speaks to Adam Duckett about accelerating the UK’s emergency vaccine production capab...
Webinar: the importance of design of experiments within chemical engineering
ON 15 September, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how design of experiments is a...
Engage with ED&I
Adam Duckett on the need to engage with equality, diversity and inclusion
Volunteer Spotlight: Tan Geok Chai
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Giving Back to the Profession
Jane Cutler, IChemE’s newly-elected Deputy President, talks to Adam Duckett
Volunteer Spotlight: Qua Kiat Seng
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Green Commitments
Adam Duckett on IChemE’s green commitments
INWED: Female chemical engineers recognised for green leadership
AS celebrations get underway for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), we caught up wit...
Kickstarting the Cycle
Opportunities from crisis
PPE Challenge Accepted
Zeb Ahmed and Nick Geary talk to Adam Duckett about the projects they are facilitating to help fi...
Volunteer Spotlight: Azzam Younes
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Managing vaccine manufacture scaleup
Withthe UK Government having announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare th...
Seeking a silver lining
Adam Duckett on engineering coming to the fore
Reader feedback
We asked our reader feedback panel to tell us how they have been impacted by the coronavirus pand...
Volunteer Spotlight: John Campbell
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
After the spill: an introduction to the series
Adam Duckett, Editor of The Chemical Engineer, introduces a series looking at Deepwater Horizon o...
Volunteer Spotlight: Roberto Moreno-Atanasio
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Volunteer Spotlight: Amanda Talhat
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Coming Forward, Speaking Up
Adam Duckett on providing an environment for engineers to speak up and thrive
Pyrolysis Gets Personal
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
A wake-up call for change
Adam Duckett says Australia's bushfires should be a wake-up call for change
Volunteer Spotlight: Denis Ring
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Spiralling Up
IChemE President Stephen Richardson talks to Adam Duckett about his ambitions for IChemE
Food for thought
Adam Duckett discusses innovation in the food and drinks sector and an issue focussed on efficiency
Volunteer Spotlight: Adisa Azapagic
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Tug of More
Adam Duckett on the tug of war between R & D
Volunteer Spotlight: Christina Phang
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Volunteer Spotlight: Fenella Nordquist
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Pushed for Space
Adam Duckett on the Apollo 11 anniversary and human ingenuity
Webinar: how Tata Steel is speeding up development with data analytics
ON 25 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how Tata Steel has used experime...
Webinar: discover how BASF is analysing data to improve yield
ON 18 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how chemicals major BASF has use...
Stressed British Steel Must Not be Allowed to Fail
Adam Duckett says Government must stand strong with British Steel
Congress: Rising to the Challenge
Congress Chair Nigel Hirst discusses the group's enthusiastic start and its immediate priorities
Time Has Run Out on CCS Delays
Adam Duckett urges action on CCS
Snapshot – Birmingham takes the fifth
Photos from the UK’s annual Frank Morton Sports Day, where The University of Birmingham took top ...
Informing Debate
Adam Duckett introduces the Clean Energy SIG's series on hydrogen
Little Wonder
Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, a...
Break it Down
Adam Duckett on responding to calls for a new biodegradable wrapper
2018 – The Year of Engineering
Adam Duckett speaks to engineers, schoolchildren and teachers who took part in the UK government’...
Keep the Doors Open
Adam Duckett calls for schools outreach to continue apace into 2019
Governments Must Pull Levers
Adam Duckett on the need for strong government intervention
Bioprocessing insights on getting the most from your data
Ahead of our coming webinar on 9 October, the presenters from JMP and GSK discuss using data to i...
Across the Scale
Adam Duckett introduces the promise of 3D printed reactors
Read Through
Adam Duckett asks how engaged you want to be
Do Share
Adam Duckett says we must do all we can to share the lessons of Piper Alpha
Piper Alpha Perspectives: Introducing the Series
Adam Duckett, editor of The Chemical Engineer introduces the Piper Alpha Perspectives series laun...
Get more from your data, increase yields and reduce costs
Ahead of our coming webinar on 19 June, Stan Higgins says we are not getting the value from our d...
Deep Impact
Adam Duckett, on life-changing moments, regrets, and the red thread of safety
Hands On
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
The Privilege of Being First
An insider’s view of the technical challenges overcome at the pioneering Boundary Dam CCS project...
No Operation is an Island
Adam Duckett discusses siloed operations
Perry’s set for 9th edition
PERRY’S – the handbook known within the discipline as the bible of chemical engineering – will be...
Birmingham steams to fourth title
Photos from the UK’s annual Frank Morton Sports Day, where The University of Birmingham took top ...
Unchained Remedy
Adam Duckett discusses breaking the vaccine cold chain
Get Nimble
Adam Duckett says it is time to get nimble and experiment
Become more efficient; out innovate the competition
Ahead of our coming webinar on 24 November, JMP's Malcolm Moore introduces why engineers should p...
Safety Review
Adam Duckett praises Norway's industrial vision
Analytic Excellence: An Example from Synthetic Biology
Ahead of our coming webinar on developing a culture of analytic excellence, Adam Duckett catches ...
Ambition Made Real
Adam Duckett praises Norway's industrial vision
In Orbit
Astronaut Donald Pettit talks to Adam Duckett about his life and work
Squaring the Circle
Adam Duckett asks how we can square the circle of our impacts
The Boundaryless Profession
Adam Duckett discusses the breadth of chemical engineering
A Critical Safety Moment
Adam Duckett on Trump’s move to eliminate the Chemical Safety Board
Digital Pioneers
Evonik's chief digital officer discusses his expectations for digitalisation at the specialty che...
A No-Nonsense Go-Getter
Adam Duckett on Elon Musk and the bet he can solve an energy crisis
Powered by Sewage
A look at how a wastewater treatment plant in Denmark has become energy self-sufficient
Top of the Tree
Adam Duckett asks whether or not your company has a digitalisation strategy
Take a Breath
Adam Duckett discusses Trump and the climate
Doubt and Promise
Adam Duckett looks forward to 2017
Safety Talk
Adam Duckett discusses his shock at the chemical accidents figures coming out of China
Let's Talk
Adam Duckett asks how we can help students get the best start to their careers
Usher in a New Age
Adam Duckett on ushering in a new era
Pushing Forward
Adam Duckett on making progress
A Safe Pair of Hands
Successes, regrets - and the damage being done to our children's futures
Share the Success
Adam Duckett says share your successes
Effect Change
Adam Duckett on boosting inclusion
Visions of the Future
Adam Duckett welcomes disruptive technologies
The Boundaryless Risk
Adam Duckett discusses the underplayed threat of hacking
Positive Change
Adam Duckett welcomes you to the new-look magazine
News
With Lindsey refinery on brink, UK government will review compensating refineries for high power costs
THE UK refining industry has welcomed news that the government is reviewing potential compensatio...
Lindsey refinery insolvency puts hundreds of UK jobs at risk
AROUND 400 jobs are at risk after the Lindsey oil refinery on Humberside, UK was placed into inso...
Siemens and EnPot join forces to power China’s aluminium industry using renewables
SIEMENS has signed a deal with EnPot, developer of a novel heat exchange technology, to help Chin...
Scientists disrupted by Iberian blackout pitch ten principles for chemistry resilience
WHAT do you do when a severe blackout throws your scientific conference (and the whole Iberian pe...
Nilay Shah wins RAEng’s President’s Medal
NILAY SHAH, a chemical processing and sustainability expert and Fellow of IChemE, has been named ...
Multiscale ambition: Ocone outlines plans to strengthen diversity and the status of the profession in IChemE presidential address
RAFFAELLA OCONE has said she will use her IChemE presidency to diversify the chemical engineering...
Gheewala named Frontiers Planet Prize champion for rice warning research
SHABBIR GHEEWALA is in the running to win a US$1m prize to advance his systems thinking research ...
Johnson Matthey sells catalyst and process tech business to Honeywell for £1.8bn
JOHNSON MATTHEY is selling its catalyst technologies business to Honeywell for £1.8bn (US$2.4bn).
BioNTech to invest £1bn in UK life sciences
VACCINE pioneer BioNTech has agreed to invest up to £1bn (US$1.3bn) in the UK where it will build...
ABB wins automation contract for HyNet CCS project
ABB will provide automation and cybersecurity systems for the transportation and storage operatio...
Costain chosen to design UK’s novel advanced nuclear fuels facility
COSTAIN has been awarded a contract from Urenco to design an advanced nuclear fuels plant in the UK.
Space mirrors and volcano drones: £56m awarded for geoengineering experiments
SCIENTISTS have been awarded more than £56m (US$74m) in funding by the UK’s moonshot innovation a...
Harbour Energy to cut 250 jobs in Aberdeen and review CCS
THE UK’s largest oil and gas producer is cutting 250 jobs in Aberdeen and reviewing its support f...
Fake lily pads could be second Sun for lithium manufacturers
A TRIAL to boost critical minerals production has shown that fake plastic lily pads could be a se...
Call for manufacturing support as Ørsted shelves UK’s huge Hornsea offshore wind project
THE UK’s renewables trade group has urged the government to do more to support domestic manufactu...
Wood wins contract to design €1.5bn fossil-free plastics plant
WOOD GROUP has won the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for a novel plant that wi...
Soil-boosting tech wins US$50m XPRIZE for sucking CO2 from the air
A US$50m prize for developing technology that removes CO2 from the atmosphere and oceans has been...
Sir Jim Ratcliffe warns that UK carbon policies are killing manufacturing
INEOS chief Sir Jim Ratcliffe has called for the UK government to rethink its carbon reduction po...
Blast at Iranian port kills at least 65
INVESTIGATIONS are underway into an explosion at a port in Iran that killed at least 65 people an...
UK project starts sucking CO2 from the sea
A PILOT plant that sucks CO2 from the sea has started operating at the Sea Life Centre in Weymout...
Greenlight for HyNet CCS network set to unlock £2bn in contracts
THE UK government and Italian energy firm Eni have given the go-ahead for construction of a major...
Fig trees tell tales on illegal miners
FIG trees could give researchers the inside track on whether international efforts to prevent mer...
PFAS inquiry launched by UK MPs
UK MPs have launched an inquiry into PFAS and are inviting expert input on whether enough is bein...
ChemEng student numbers rise again in the UK
THE number of students starting UK chemical engineering courses is up 11% after applications leap...
LevertonHelm opens £35m lithium chloride plant
LEVERTONHELM has opened a new £30m (US$40m) lithium chloride production plant in Basingstoke, UK ...
Solvay starts rare earths production but future expansion relies on manufacturers buying local
SOLVAY has expanded production of European rare earths and said customers must now buy local befo...
Wood Group signals willingness to accept £242m takeover bid from Sidara
WOOD GROUP has said it is open to a £242m (US$318m) takeover bid from UAE’s Sidara – nearly 85% l...
Woodside sells US$5.7bn stake in its first US LNG plant
AUSTRALIAN energy major Woodside has sold a 40% stake in its Louisiana LNG project to private equ...
US researchers find new route for tyres that have reached the end of the road
USED tyres could one day be recycled to produce epoxy resins according to researchers exploring c...
Fashion cycle: BASF launches its first factory to recycle waste nylon clothing
BASF has started operating its first commercial plant to recycle waste textiles back into feedsto...
UKAEA awards £3.5m to develop the sensors engineers need to operate fusion plants
TECHNOLOGISTS developing sensors to withstand the extreme conditions inside a fusion reactor – pr...
Trade groups call on UK government to take urgent action in response to Trump tariffs
UK trade groups have called for the UK government to take urgent action in response to the tariff...
Costain wins contract to upgrade Capenhurst uranium enrichment site
COSTAIN has won a contract from Urenco to engineer new and upgraded infrastructure at its Capenhu...
UNESCO and Nestlé launch initiative to support 100 young entrepreneurs with sustainable food solutions
UNESCO and Nestlé have teamed up to find and fund 100 young entrepreneurs who have innovative ide...
Elsevier launches new AI service designed to speed up R&D
ICHEME’s journals publisher Elsevier has launched a new AI tool to help engineers extract, summar...
Cornish Lithium gets greenlight to build UK’s first plant to recover lithium from hot water
THE UK’S first commercial geothermal lithium production plant has been approved as Cornish Lithiu...
New UK lab will connect industry with emerging tech developers to boost worker safety
A NEW initiative has been launched to accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies that could...
Kellogg’s fuels your breakfast with hydrogen
A KELLOGG’S factory has successfully demonstrated that hydrogen fuel can be used to toast cereals.
enfinium will relocate CCS pilot plant in effort to expand technology trial
WASTE-TO-ENERGY company enfinium is relocating a CCS pilot plant to its Parc Adfer plant in Wales...
Hydrogen plant set to revive Chapelcross nuclear site
A UK hydrogen developer is planning to build an electrolysis plant at the site of a former nuclea...
Engineers say artificial reefs could filter microplastics from the sea
WHAT if we could build artificial coral reefs to filter microplastics from the sea? That’s a poss...
UK universities launch doctoral training centre for fusion engineers
A NEW training centre is being launched by UK universities to train the next generation of fusion...
UKAEA and Eni join forces to engineer world-leading fusion fuel facility
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority and engineering powerhouse Eni have joined forces to build the wor...
Honeywell shakeup continues with US$2.16bn buyout of pumps firm Sundyne
HONEYWELL is buying pumps and compressors manufacturer Sundyne for US$2.16bn, in a move to bolste...
Orica saves 1m t of emissions at Australian explosives site
ORICA has installed technology at its Kooragang Island chemicals site in Australia that has saved...
UK pledges £200m to secure Grangemouth future
THE UK government has promised £200m (US$252m) for investment at Grangemouth in a bid to secure t...
Wanted: contributors for Hazards process safety conference
ICHEME is inviting abstract submissions for its Hazards process safety conference taking place fr...
Monash team enlists AI to rapidly identify microplastics in step towards real-time environmental analysis
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE could one day help us clean up microplastics after researchers at Monash ...
London completes super sewer in fight against river spills
A NEW super sewer that will prevent an estimated 95% of spills into the River Thames has been ful...
The UK engineers working to kickstart the hydrogen economy
Engineers across the UK are researching hydrogen’s role in decarbonising industry, exploring ammo...
IChemE calls for contributors for returning ChemEng digitalisation conference
ICHEME is inviting abstract submissions for its Advances in the Digitalisation of the Process Ind...
AI pioneers scoop 2025 QE Prize for Engineering
SEVEN engineers behind the rise of the artificial intelligence technologies that are revolutionis...
Watch: ship delivers vast €150m furnaces for major chemicals plant
INEOS has released a video showing the moment two huge furnaces worth €150m (US$156m) completed a...
Court: Jackdaw and Rosebank oil field approvals were unlawful
A COURT has ruled that consent given for two UK oil and gas fields was unlawful, but that develop...
UK protein study has potential to transform personalised medicine
A HUGE study that has been launched to find treatments for diseases by measuring how the proteins...
bp to axe 4,700 jobs and 3,000 contractors
bp is making 4,700 staff redundant – more than 5% of its total workforce – and axing 3,000 contra...
UK pledges £410m for fusion R&D and shortlists firms that will design and build prototype plant
THE UK has pledged to invest £410m (US$501m) in fusion power development and has shortlisted the ...
IChemE members now have free access to Perry’s Chemical Engineer’s Handbook
ICHEME members can now read the latest edition of Perry’s Chemical Engineer’s Handbook online for...
Stewart keen to use ANZFChE role to enhance regional STEM growth and collaboration
EWAN STEWART, the new chair of the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers (A...
UK needs integrated materials sector to drive growth, urges joint report
THE AUTHORS of a national materials strategy have warned that without concerted industry leadersh...
What to read while we’re away
WITH The Chemical Engineer team poised to close our laptops until the office reopens on 2 January...
Wanted: Danckwerts lecturer for 2025
NOMINATIONS are open to find a speaker for the prestigious Danckwerts Lecture.
£4bn of contracts awarded for construction of UK CCS projects
ENGINEERING firms, including Costain and Wood, have been awarded contracts worth £4bn (US$5bn) to...
US offers US$36m for process developers to recover ammonia and metals from wastewater
THE US is offering US$36m for researchers who can help recover ammonia and critical metals from w...
Kanga awarded Engineers Australia’s highest honour
MARLENE KANGA has been awarded the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal, the highest honour given b...
Cemex to install world-first hydrogen process at UK cement plant
CEMEX is set to trial a process developed by Hiiroc that uses plasma to produce hydrogen for gree...
A virtuous circle? Fusion developers relying on power-hungry AI to accelerate commercialisation
FUSION energy development is locked in step with artificial intelligence (AI), according to the f...
Glasgow research centre will extend life of industrial equipment
A NEW £5.5m (US$7m) research centre in Scotland will focus on how industrial equipment can be reu...
Neste and Technip join forces for ‘copy and paste’ liquefaction for plastics recycling
IN A BID to reduce the upfront costs for the chemical recycling of plastics, Neste, Alterra and T...
Hundreds of schoolchildren visit IChemE to be inspired by chemical engineers
ICHEME has hosted more than 300 schoolchildren at its UK headquarters where they met with real-li...
New alliance formed to supercharge UK’s sustainable chemicals sector
A NEW alliance for sustainable chemicals has called on the UK government to create a long-term pl...
NTU Singapore launching hybrid chemeng-chemistry course to fill skills gap
IN AN EFFORT to produce graduates with chemical engineering and chemistry skillsets, Nanyang Tech...
Statue of engineer Alice Kan unveiled to celebrate National Engineering Day
THE FIRST statue of a living engineer has been unveiled in London to mark National Engineering Da...
Shallcross awarded Chemeca Medal
DAVID SHALLCROSS has been awarded the Chemeca Medal for his contributions to the chemical enginee...
Scientists publish handover script to guard against AI technology harm
GOVERNANCE of AI is lagging dangerously behind the technology’s spread though society, scientists...
Sustainability consortium seeks volunteer leaders from UK chemicals industry
UK CHEMICAL industry leaders have been asked to volunteer to join the advisory board of a consort...
UK seeks feedback on industrial strategy
THE UK government is asking for feedback on a new industrial strategy, Invest 2035, focused on at...
Australia starts up Moomba, the world’s third largest CCS project without EOR
THE MOOMBA carbon capture and storage project in Australia has become the world’s third largest p...
Investigation launched into fatal hydrogen sulfide leak that killed two US workers
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has launched an investigation into a ...
Last Energy plans four small nuclear reactors in Wales to directly decarbonise local industry
LAST ENERGY is spending £300m (US$391m) installing four small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in ...
Industry releases CO2 specification guidelines for engineers designing carbon capture networks
IN a bid to support the growth of carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS), partners from across i...
Engineers call for smaller electric car batteries and ban on vapes
USING smaller electric car batteries and stripping materials out of old wind turbines for use in ...
UK greenlights support for long duration energy storage projects
LONG duration energy storage schemes have been given a shot in the arm with the UK government est...
Maersk investment group funding €1.5bn plant making fossil-free plastics from methanol
THE MAERSK shipping family are funding a new company producing fossil-free plastics from green me...
UK invests £22bn in CCS clusters and hydrogen projects
THE UK is investing almost £22bn (US$28.8bn) in carbon capture and storage and hydrogen projects ...
Sorensen and Pelzel among IChemE members elected to Royal Academy of Engineering
EVA SORENSEN and Rodney Pelzel are among five IChemE members elected fellows of the UK’s Royal Ac...
EU investing €1bn in AI factories in race for innovation
THE EU is investing €1bn (US$1.1bn) to set up so-called AI Factories that will use the bloc’s sup...
Rolls-Royce and Johnson Matthey among IChemE Global Awards finalists
THE finalists for IChemE’s 2024 Global Awards have been announced, with more than 75 organisation...
Applications open for IChemE’s revamped catalysis fellowship
ICHEME is inviting applications for the Andrew Fellowship which has switched its focus to very ea...
New UK coal mine blocked by High Court
PLANS to build the UK’s first coal mine in more than 30 years have been quashed by the High Court.
RAEng offers £150m in grants for engineers who want to scale up climate tech
ENGINEERS in the UK can bid for fellowships worth up to £3m (US$3.9m) to help scale up climate te...
Grangemouth refining to stop next year with 400 jobs lost
GRANGEMOUTH refinery in Scotland will cease refinery operations in the second quarter of 2025 wit...
Cambridge University tops The Guardian chemical engineering league table
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY has topped The Guardian’s 2025 league table for chemical engineering for the...
£500m for Port Talbot electric arc furnace, with 2,500 jobs still set to go
THE UK government has agreed to give a £500m (US$651m) grant to Tata Steel to build an electric a...
Lego building for a greener future as it increases sustainable feedstocks
THOSE LEGO bricks you buy for your children (or sometimes yourself) are on their way to becoming ...
Sweden’s green steel pilot project a success with commercialisation now underway
ENGINEERS have declared that their attempts to produce fossil-free steel have been successful and...
Equinor to use world’s first ammonia-powered supply ship
NORWEGIAN oil major Equinor has given the greenlight for one of its supply vessels to become the ...
UK government must do more to avert worrying outlook for UK chemicals sector, think tank warns
TENS of thousands of jobs in the UK chemical sector are at risk due to lagging decarbonisation po...
Mitsubishi to invest £250m doubling plastic output at Saltend site
MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL is investing £250m (US$328m) to double production of packaging plastic at its...
A shot of whisky and some chemical feedstocks please
WHISKY waste could provide high-value feedstocks such as lactic acid for the pharmaceuticals and ...
Chinese nuclear reactor completes world-first passive cooling test
CHINESE engineers have made a nuclear safety breakthrough by shutting off power to the cooling sy...
Meng Wai Woo keen to use ANZFChE role to boost the profession and regional ties
MENG WAI WOO, the new chair of the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers (A...
Update: Anochrome Ltd admits spilling toxic chemical into Walsall canal
ANOCHROME LTD, a company that provides electroplating and coatings, has said it is the source of ...
Rio Tinto agrees state support for one of Australia’s largest smelters as Queensland ramps up renewables
OPERATION of the Boyne aluminium smelter in Queensland could be protected until at least 2040 und...
Essar to buy Thornton Science Park from Chester Uni
ESSAR is buying Thornton Science Park from the University of Chester as part of plans to create a...
Shell signs off on Phase 2 of Australia’s Surat Gas Project
SHELL is investing in the second phase of its Surat Gas Project in Queensland, Australia as it pu...
Costain wins multimillion-pound FEED contract for Teesside hydrogen pipeline network
COSTAIN has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract by bp for a new hydro...
US to label cleaner construction materials to accelerate use of greener glass, concrete, and steel
THE AMOUNT of carbon embedded in construction materials could soon become much easier to spot tha...
Woodside agrees US$2.35bn deal for OCI clean ammonia plant
WOODSIDE is buying a low-carbon ammonia plant in the US for US$2.35bn as it looks to expand into ...
US$1m Google partnership offers AI placements for disadvantaged UK undergrads
UK UNDERGRADUATE engineering students from disadvantaged backgrounds will be offered summer place...
Australia should avoid small nuclear reactors until 2040s, engineers warn
ENGINEERS have warned that if Australia is to reverse years of opposition to nuclear power and be...
Veolia sells sulfuric acid regen business for US$620m
VEOLIA has sold its North American sulfuric acid regeneration business to private equity group Am...
US industry risking lives due to lack of remote isolation equipment, CSB warns
US CHEMICAL facilities are putting lives at risk by failing to heed lessons learned from loss of ...
EU refuses call by auditor to update its "unrealistic" hydrogen targets
EFFORTS by the EU to establish a hydrogen market to decarbonise heavy industry have been criticis...
Taking the P out of pee
ENGINEERS at the University of Surrey are investigating how phosphorous can be filtered from huma...
UK outlines plans for state-run energy firm, with engineer picked to run it
THE UK government has unveiled plans for its state energy firm Great British Energy, putting engi...
£70m for engineers to design and build advanced nuclear fuel plants
THE UK government is offering £70m (US$90m) for engineers to design and build plants needed to ma...
UK MP and chemical engineer Chris McDonald keen to unite the worlds of engineering and politics
CHRIS MCDONALD, an IChemE Fellow and new member of the UK parliament, has been appointed an assis...
Jonathan Vincent awarded Young Ambassador award by CIA
JONATHAN VINCENT has been awarded the Young Ambassador of the Year Award by the UK’s Chemical Ind...
Carlsberg will buy Britvic for £3.3bn
CARLSBERG has agreed to buy UK drinks manufacturer Britvic for £3.3bn (US$4.2bn) as it pushes ahe...
Dame Judith Hackitt awarded 2024 President’s Medal by Royal Academy of Engineering
DAME JUDITH HACKITT, safety expert and a former president of IChemE, is the 2024 recipient of the...
AI-guided evolution, lower-carbon carpets and plastic recycling win out at IChemE’s inaugural Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability
“I WANT the stuff I work on to make an impact. That’s everything I think engineering should be.”
Bezos funds US$30m sustainable protein lab as Imperial engineers seek to revolutionise food production
A US$30m centre for sustainable protein has been launched at Imperial College London as engineers...
Britvic rejects £3.1bn bid from Carlsberg
UK DRINKS manufacturer Britvic has turned down a £3.1bn (US$3.9bn) takeover bid from Danish brewe...
Sellafield pleads guilty to cybersecurity failures
SELLAFIELD, which processes the UK’s nuclear waste, has pleaded guilty to all criminal charges re...
Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat: world’s first plant opens in Germany
THE WORLD’S first industrial plant using solar heat to make fuels has been opened in Germany. Usi...
IChemE members Amiaka and Lake named among Top 50 Women in Engineering
TWO ICHEME members – Nike Amiaka and Amanda Lake – have been recognised in the Women’s Engineerin...
Landmark ruling could put UK fossil fuel projects at risk
THE impact of burning fossil fuels should be taken into account when approving energy development...
Energy stored as liquefied air: £300m investment triggers construction of UK’s first commercial-scale plant
HIGHVIEW POWER has received £300m (US$379m) in funding to build the UK’s first commercial-scale l...
CO2 leaks: engineers join forces to understand the threat posed by greater use of CCS
ENGINEERING consultancy Ricardo has joined a partnership investigating what would happen if a lar...
University of Bristol switches on fastest, greenest supercomputer
THE UK’S most powerful and greenest supercomputer – Isambard-AI – has begun to come online and re...
Engineers urge UK action on sewage to guard against sickness outbreaks
IMMEDIATE action to bolster maintenance of the sewage system and sensors to allow real-time monit...
Hunt for industry partners begins as UK seeks to build prototype nuclear fusion plant
A COMPETITION is being launched later this month to find the industry partners that will build th...
Anglo American plans to cleave off coal, platinum, and diamonds after rejecting fresh £34bn offer from BHP
ANGLO AMERICAN has announced plans to break up the company, including getting rid of its coking c...
Mammoth undertaking: Climeworks starts up world’s largest direct air capture plant
THE world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) plant – Mammoth – has started operations in Iceland ...
UK shelves hydrogen town trial
THE UK has shelved plans to trial using hydrogen to heat homes at town-scale until after 2026. Th...
UK launches £6m competition to create a national maths academy
THE UK has launched a £6m competition to create a new national maths academy to advise government...
UK to rival Russia with £196m advanced nuclear fuels plant at Urenco site in Cheshire
THE UK government is awarding £196m (US$244m) to Urenco to build a uranium enrichment facility in...
UK allows wind farms and oil producers to overlap in North Sea
THE UK has introduced new rules allowing oil and gas firms and wind farm operators to share sites...
IChemE proposes new rules allowing non-chartered Fellows and extending votes to the wider membership
ICHEME has proposed changes to its Royal Charter and by-laws that will decouple Fellows from havi...
Raffaella Ocone set to be 84th president of IChemE
RAFFAELLA OCONE, professor of chemical engineering at Heriot-Watt University, will take up the pr...
Sumitomo Chemical cutting 10% of workforce to stem bleeding from record US$2bn losses
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL will slash 4,000 jobs and restructure its business to “stop the bleeding” of it...
Update: Anglo American rejects £31bn BHP offer, saying it significantly undervalues the firm
ANGLO AMERICAN has rejected a £31bn (US$38.7bn) takeover offer from its mining rival BHP, saying ...
World-first electric steam cracker demo starts operations in push to slash emissions by 90%
BASF, SABIC and Linde have started operating a demonstration plant to prove that electrically hea...
Mura and Ghent Uni join forces to extend recycling process to other problem plastics
MURA TECHNOLOGY, the firm behind a plastics recycling demonstration plant that’s under constructi...
Australian minerals and hydrogen research gets A$59m funding boost
A FLOATING device that uses sunlight to produce hydrogen from wastewater and a leaching process a...
Wizz and poo: airline signs US$1bn deal to buy jet fuel made from human waste
YOUR flight abroad could one day be powered by human waste after a UK company announced plans to ...
Johnson Matthey and bp license process to make jet fuel from farm waste at US$4bn plant
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) and bp have licensed their Fischer-Tropsch process to a huge new US$4bn US p...
MIT retains top university ranking for chemical engineering
MIT has retained its position as the best university for studying chemical engineering, according...
IChemE and ITN to make programme showcasing engineering careers
ICHEME is partnering with ITN Business and other engineering institutions on a news-style program...
X-energy and Cavendish given £3m to assess Hartlepool ‘gumball’ nuclear reactor
X-ENERGY and Cavendish Nuclear have been awarded £3.34m (US$4.24m) by the UK government to assess...
Boston Metals’ electrified process starts extracting valuable metals from mining slag
A PILOT plant that recovers metals from mining waste has started operations in Brazil, as develop...
UK’s Hynet carbon capture pipeline given the greenlight
A PIPELINE that will transport industrial CO2 for storage beneath Liverpool Bay has been approved...
UK ammonia cracking plant takes first steps in push towards hydrogen economy
AN AMMONIA cracking system has started operations at the Tyseley Energy Park in the UK, as develo...
Ineos proposes closure of Grangemouth ethanol plant
INEOS is looking to close its ethanol plant at the Grangemouth petrochemicals complex in the UK a...
Sarawak signs deal with Gentari to build hydrogen production hub
MALAYSIA’S Sarawak state is gearing up to develop a world-scale hydrogen production hub following...
Nominations open for IChemE Congress and Board of Trustees
MEMBERS of IChemE are being encouraged to support the future of the profession by nominating them...
UK government’s energy market reforms overshadowed by call to build new gas power stations
ENGINEERS are pushing the UK government to do more to support CCUS and hydrogen following its hig...
IChemE and AIChE announce joint hydrogen webinars and annual conference
ICHEME and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will co-host a series of webinars...
Mondi agrees £5bn deal for DS Smith in bid to create packaging heavyweight
MONDI has agreed to buy rival DS Smith for £5.1bn (US$6.5bn) in a deal which will create one of t...
Industry and skills groups react coolly to government budget
THE UK’s spring budget has received a mixed reaction from engineering and manufacturing groups, a...
MPs meet with IChemE to discuss how to avoid green skills crisis
ENGINEERS called on UK lawmakers to help fix a looming skills crisis that threatens to derail net...
Nottingham Uni stroll to Frank Morton victory
Students from the University of Nottingham have overturned a near 40-year winless streak to retur...
Electric avenue: researchers use electric fields to catalyse chemical reactions
WHAT if you could one day catalyse your industrial reactions with electric fields rather than the...
Australia funds A$14m cleantech support centre
AUSTRALIA is funding a A$14m (US$9.2m) centre that will help companies manufacture and adopt rene...
Covestro turns to nature to divert aniline production away from fossil feedstocks
A PROCESS that uses genetically modified microorganisms to make a chemical used in insulating foa...
New Zealand bans PFAS in cosmetics
NEW ZEALAND has banned the use of PFAS in cosmetic products from the end of 2026 to protect consu...
Small nuclear reactors could power Teesside chemicals industry
A DEAL has been struck to build a fleet of four small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in Teesside...
JET’s swansong experiments break fusion record
THE final experiments at the UK’s JET fusion power plant have produced a world record for energy ...
NDA calls together group-wide researchers to discuss decommissioning innovations
THE UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority will host a first-of-its-kind meeting in Sheffield lat...
Woodside and Santos merger talks collapse
AUSTRALIA’S Santos and Woodside have ended merger talks, ruling out their creation of a unified U...
Wind turbine pioneers Stiesdal and Garrad win 2024 QEPrize
HENRIK STIESDAL and Andrew Garrad have been awarded the 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineerin...
Imperial College and Liverpool Uni to lead AI chemistry hub
A NEW UK research hub has received £12m (US$15m) in funding to investigate how AI can accelerate ...
Wellcome commits £20m to increase representation of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani researchers
WELLCOME is launching a £20m (US$25m) funding drive to help tackle the underrepresentation of Bla...
Drax plans carbon removal business as auditor airs biomass sustainability concerns
DRAX is launching a new business focused on building power plants that burn biomass, capture the ...
Edinburgh and Glasgow universities unite for climate research
UNIVERSITIES in Scotland have formed a new collaborative research partnership to address the clim...
Hinkley Point C could go £28bn over budget as EDF predicts further delays
EDF SAYS its Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant could be delayed to as late as 2031, with costs ...
AI put to work in push for rapid battery development
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is helping slash the time it takes to develop batteries, with Umicor...
50 technologies that could change the world
BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED AI, data stored in DNA, and power beamed from space are among 50 emerging t...
ChemEng intake rises for first time since 2015
THE NUMBER of students starting a UK undergraduate degree in chemical, process, and energy engine...
Engineers among the most trusted profession
THE ENGINEERING profession is among the most trusted in Britain according to the latest Ipsos Ver...
Stanlow refinery hydrogen plans given greenlight
PLANS for large-scale blue hydrogen production at the Stanlow refinery in northwest England have ...
Training and materials choices blamed for fatal Texas blast
POOR materials selection and staff training failures contributed to an explosion and fire at a KM...
UK declares biggest nuclear revival in 70 years with plans for new reactors and fuel production
THE UK government wants to build a new large-scale nuclear plant and will invest £310m (US$394m) ...
BP wins approval to convert Kwinana into a biorefinery
BP has been granted approval to produce biofuels as its former Kwinana refining site in Australia.
Australia selects six projects to kickstart green hydrogen industry
AUSTRALIA has shortlisted six large-scale electrolysis projects under a A$2bn (US$1.34bn) scheme ...
Heriot-Watt researchers make hydrogen from whisky wastewater
WASTEWATER from whisky distilleries could be used to produce hydrogen, saving precious freshwater...
Goodbye 2023, and what to read while we’re away
AS WE put the lids on our pens, close our notebooks, and say goodbye until 2 January, we thought ...
Dame Judith Hackitt named interim chair of UK’s nuclear regulator
FORMER IChemE president Dame Judith Hackitt has been named the interim chair of the Office for Nu...
Hazards conference: energies and skills impacts come into sharp focus
Safety professionals urged to consider transition, natech, and non-technical skills
COP28 deal: a starting gun fired for the end of fossil fuels?
COUNTRIES have agreed at the COP28 climate conference to transition away from fossil fuels and tr...
IChemE and ITN launch “Engineering a Sustainable World” programme
ICHEME has produced a programme with ITN showing the roles that chemical and process engineers pl...
Air Liquide wins contract for Teesside waste-to-jet-fuel plant
AIR LIQUIDE has been awarded a contract to help build a £1.5bn (US$1.9bn) plant in Teesside, UK t...
Oxford’s rapid Covid test wins top prize at IChemE Awards
THE University of Oxford has been given IChemE’s outstanding achievement in chemical and process ...
Sweden’s Northvolt hails sodium battery breakthrough
NORTHVOLT says it has made a breakthrough in the development of sodium-ion batteries that could h...
NuScale cancels first planned SMR nuclear project due to lack of interest
NUSCALE has cancelled the first project for its pioneering small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) te...
Grangemouth set to cease refining operations as ‘major questions’ asked
GRANGEMOUTH refinery in Scotland could cease operations in 2025 and become a fuel import terminal...
MP praises IChemE’s DiscoverChemEng initiative after visit to their UK HQ
ICHEME hosted parliamentarian Mark Pawsey at its Rugby headquarters in the UK where the MP saw fi...
New supercomputers will put the UK 'first in the queue' when it comes to R&D and managing AI risks
UK INDUSTRIAL researchers have been promised a boon on the fringes of the Bletchley AI Summit tha...
Engineers successfully trial single process to produce zero emissions steel and cement
ENGINEERS working on a process to produce zero-emission cement as a byproduct of recycling steel ...
FluRefin technology wins impact award
A CARBON capture technology developed at the University of Sheffield by IChemE member Peter Styri...
Worker dies in Melbourne chemicals plant blast
A MAN has died in an explosion at a chemical plant in Melbourne, Australia.
ExxonMobil gambles US$60bn on shale oil buyout
EXXONMOBIL has placed a US$60bn bet on US shale oil with the purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources.
Adisa Azapagic awarded IChemE’s Davis Medal
ADISA AZAPAGIC, the world’s first professor of sustainable chemical engineering, has been awarded...
UK lithium boost as engineers use membranes to extract lithium from brine
ENGINEERS have piloted a process that uses membranes to produce battery grade lithium carbonate f...
Aurecon follows in the footsteps of AstraZeneca and Shell to become 100th member of the IChemE Safety Centre
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) has welcomed its 100th member to the consortium – the engineering ...
Frucor Suntory Queensland plant buys into green power
A NEW drinks manufacturing facility being built in Queensland, Australia will source all its elec...
Imperial to lead £118m green minerals research centre
A NEW £118m (US$150m) research centre at Imperial College London will work to transform mineral e...
MOF capture firm secures £3.4m funding for UK CCS pilot
NUADA, which is developing a MOF-based carbon capture process, has received £3.4m (US$4.3m) inves...
BASF opens centre to research microplastics and biodegradation
BASF has opened a research facility in the US to help understand how plastics disintegrate and bi...
Australian miner Fortescue is building battery factory in UK
FORTESCUE is building a factory near Oxford, UK, that will produce batteries and electric powertr...
Seaweed heat storage material set for steelmaking trial
ENGINEERS at Swansea University, UK have developed a heat storage material made from seaweed that...
Johnson Matthey licenses technology for largest-of-its-kind biodegradable plastics plant
JOHNSON MATTHEY is licensing its butanediol (BDO) process technology for a new plastics plant in ...
Zheng congratulated by IChemE for insights into Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
ICHEME has congratulated Qingyuan Zheng for publishing a paper in Nature Catalysis based on resea...
Eden Project starts up UK’s first deep geothermal plant in nearly four decades
THE UK’s first new deep geothermal project to begin operations in 37 years has come online in Cor...
A new gallery celebrating engineers opens at the Science Museum
AN exhibition called Engineers opened today at the Science Museum in London dedicated to world-ch...
Engineering options that can prevent sewer overflows
WITH industry forced to apologise for dumping untreated sewage into rivers, changes upstream incl...
The importance of engineers and not strangling AI
SIR PATRICK VALLANCE reflects on five years as the UK’s chief scientific advisor.
Peak Cluster: UK lime and cement producers join forces to capture 3m t/y of emissions
CEMENT and lime producers in the UK have formed a carbon capture and storage cluster – the Peak C...
IChemE partners with ITN on Engineering a Sustainable World programme
ICHEME has partnered with ITN Business to produce a news-style programme called Engineering a Sus...
Recovering heat, capturing carbon and switching fuels: UK industry awarded funds to engineer out emissions
CHEMICAL companies and food manufacturers are among the latest firms to receive millions in UK go...
Jacobs set to split in two by cleaving off government services
ENGINEERING and consulting firm Jacobs is splitting into two firms by spinning off its government...
Australia offers industry A$2bn to scale up green hydrogen
AUSTRALIA’S government will give A$2bn ($US1.3bn) to industry to scale-up the production of green...
Chemical engineers helping to close the loop on electric car batteries
CHEMICAL engineers at Imperial College London are working with Altilium Metals to prove that elec...
Plugging the UK into Moroccan renewables: massive undersea cable link wins funding
A PROJECT planning to run undersea cables from Morocco to the UK to supply 8% of the country’s po...
IChemE and AIChE form hydrogen alliance
ICHEME and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) have agreed to work together to s...
BP joins Humberside’s Viking CCS project
BP has bought into Harbour Energy’s plans to develop the Viking CCS transportation and storage pr...
Sizewell C looks at capturing CO2 from the atmosphere using nuclear heat
SIZEWELL C, in the UK, is developing plans to demonstrate how heat from a nuclear plant could be ...
Ineos steps into Asia phenol with purchase of Mitsui’s Singapore plants
INEOS has bought Mitsui Chemicals’ phenol production plants in Singapore for US$330m.
Claire Adjiman elected to the US National Academy of Engineering
CLAIRE ADJIMAN, a chemical engineer and Fellow of IChemE, has been elected to the US National Aca...
Australia sets new limits on heavy industry in push for decarbonisation
AUSTRALIA has passed legal reforms that set a hard cap on industrial emissions and require new ga...
Iain Conn appointed next chair of EngineeringUK
IAIN CONN, a chemical engineer and IChemE Fellow, is set to become the new chair of EngineeringUK...
IChemE publishes cybersecurity fact files and urges chemical engineers to manage hacking risks against industry
ICHEME has launched a series of fact files to raise awareness of the importance of cybersecurity ...
A century of chemical engineering at UCL
ICHEME president David Bogle has given a speech to UCL students in which he traced the history of...
Darrell Patterson awarded Bath’s first ever posthumous professorship
DARRELL PATTERSON is the first person to be awarded a posthumous professorship by the UK’s Univer...
Sabic to assess Coolbrook’s greener cracking technology
SABIC has agreed to assess Coolbrook’s turbomachine technology which is being piloted as a greene...
EU launches net zero plan to rival US greentech incentives
THE EU has outlined its plans for scaling-up the manufacturing of crucial clean technologies as i...
RAEng funds engineering department initiatives to bolster student diversity
EIGHT UK university engineering departments have been awarded more than £700,000 (US$850,000) by ...
IChemE joins bid to create Australian hydrogen research centre
ICHEME is joining a proposed Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) in Australia that would work to ex...
UK and Canada forge ties to strengthen critical minerals supplies
THE UK and Canada have agreed to cooperate on critical minerals including research to bolster the...
Linde joins Coolbrook in push to turbocharge greener cracking
LINDE has formed a strategic partnership with Coolbrook to develop and deploy a turbomachine desi...
Chemical engineers work to create hydrogen from steel sludge
CHEMICAL engineers from Imperial College London have joined forces with the UK’s Materials Proces...
Ineos secures €3.5bn for its huge European chemicals investment
INEOS has raised €3.5bn (US$3.7bn) for the construction of a world-scale ethylene plant in Belgiu...
BP dilutes climate plans with renewed investment in oil and gas
BP has dialled back its climate commitment, signalling it will increase investments in oil and ga...
Roger Kilburn appointed chair of NEPIC
ROGER KILBURN, a chemical engineer and Fellow of IChemE, has been appointed the chair of the UK’s...
Emerson wins automation contract for Ras Laffan petchem complex
EMERSON has won the contract to supply automation and analytics technology for the US$6bn Ras Laf...
Solvay will use rice husks for greener tyre chemicals
SOLVAY said it will open a new unit at a chemicals plant in Italy that will halve the carbon foot...
Ineos buys former BASF concrete chemicals business
INEOS is buying MBCC’s admixture business from Sika, acquiring manufacturing sites in the US, Can...
IChemE calls for nominations for Trustee and Congress vacancies
MEMBERS of IChemE are being invited to put themselves forward for vacancies on its Board of Trust...
Sweden discovers Europe’s largest rare earths deposit
SWEDEN’S state mining firm has discovered what could be Europe’s largest rare earths deposit, and...
UK grants planning approval for General Fusion demonstrator
A FUSION energy demonstration plant has been granted planning permission with construction at the...
Inquiry launched into apprenticeship decline
WITH the UK battling an acute skills shortage, Former Labour and Conservative ministers Lord Knig...
Yvonne Baker appointed IChemE CEO
YVONNE BAKER has been appointed the new CEO of IChemE and will join the institution in April.
Australia greenlights first offshore wind zone as push for renewables heats up
AUSTRALIA has taken its first step towards harnessing offshore wind by declaring the Bass Strait ...
SSE begins work with Siemens to integrate hydrogen production, storage and combustion
ENERGY firm SSE is developing plans to integrate hydrogen production, storage and power generatio...
Goodbye Centenary year, and what to read while we’re away
AS our editorial team power down their computers until 3 January, here are some features you may ...
Steel coalition calls for emissions standard that ignores production process
A COALITION of steelmakers has called for a global process-agnostic emissions standard, warning t...
Reports: Ineos in talks with Rolls-Royce to build nuclear plant at Grangemouth refinery
INEOS is reportedly in talks with Rolls-Royce about using its small modular nuclear reactor (SMR)...
Sellafield digital twin project clinches top IChemE award
SELLAFIELD and the National Nuclear Laboratory were awarded IChemE’s Outstanding Achievement in C...
Rough facility resumes gas storage following significant engineering upgrades
THE Rough gas storage facility in the UK has returned to operations, increasing the country’s gas...
BP buys US biogas firm for US$4.1bn in push to go net zero
BP is buying US biogas producer Archaea Energy for US$4.1bn as part of its plans to reduce its re...
BASF to downsize in Europe as chemicals trade group warns the sector is at breaking point
BASF has said it must “permanently” cut costs at its European sites to protect the company from w...
Double wins for Sime Darby and Petronas at IChemE Malaysia Awards
SIME Darby and Petronas both won two awards at IChemE’s annual Malaysia Awards, held virtually on...
Worley to help build UK’s first lithium refinery in Teesside
WORLEY has won a contract to help engineer the UK’s first lithium refinery as developers seek to ...
Nuclear and oil decommissioning sectors join forces
THE UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and the National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) ar...
UK picks Midlands to host prototype fusion reactor
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Korean partners plan major export of ammonia from Australia
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IChemE President makes first overseas visit since pandemic
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Report: Take whole systems approach to hydrogen economy
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Shell’s Prelude FLNG resumes operations following strikes
SHELL has resumed shipping LNG cargos from its massive Prelude floating LNG project following a s...
Shell and Petronas agree to invest in Sarawak sour gas development
SHELL and Petronas have taken a final investment decision to develop the Rosmari-Marjoram gas pro...
Electrification of steam cracking: BASF demo set to operate in 2023
BASF, SABIC and Linde have begun electrifying a steam cracker at the huge Ludwigshafen chemicals ...
Composites centre wants UK to lead on recycled carbon fibres
THE UK’s National Composites Centre (NCC) has set its sights on scaling up new industrial process...
UK set to host rare earths processing hub in push for cleantech security
THE UK is set to host a new US$195m rare earth processing hub that Pensana is building at the Sal...
Josh Fearns awarded Ashok Kumar Fellowship
JOSH Fearns, a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Surrey, UK has been awarded ICh...
Dow goes nuclear: chemical firm will install reactors at US chemicals complex
DOW will install advanced nuclear reactors at one of its Gulf Coast sites to provide low carbon p...
Charles Darwin University will install hydrogen system to collaborate with industry
CHARLES Darwin University is purchasing a hydrogen energy storage system to help Australia’s Nort...
Wood wins contract to engineer Ineos’ huge European chemicals project
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Calls for UK to maintain EU research links as Government publishes ‘Horizon Plan B’
CHEMICAL engineers have joined calls for the UK to maintain its links with the EU’s €95.5bn (US$9...
UK gas storage capacity set to double amid concerns that supply shortages could force industry closures
CENTRICA has been given the green light to seek approval to resume gas storage operations at its ...
Engineers push to make zero emissions steel and cement from a single process
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£3.8bn UK gigafactory receives funding
THE UK Government has committed funding towards a huge £3.8bn (US$4.5bn) battery manufacturing pl...
CPH2 licenses membrane-free electrolyser for use alongside solar power plants
CLEAN Power Hydrogen (CPH2) has signed a license agreement with solar power venture GHFG to build...
IChemE announces shortlisted finalists for Malaysia Awards
ICHEME has announced the shortlisted finalists for its annual Malaysia awards. They include Sime ...
UK joins forces with MIT spin-out to accelerate nuclear fusion
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority has joined forces with Common Fusion Systems (CFS) of the US to sp...
Engineers will suck CO2 from the ocean
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KBR to design Carbon Clean CCS plant for Cemex
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Johnson Matthey will invest £80m in hydrogen fuel cell factory
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BASF approves investment in €10bn world-scale Chinese chemicals complex
BASF has approved the construction of the core of its €10bn (US$10bn) integrated chemicals site i...
Shell joins Qatar for major LNG expansion
SHELL has become the fifth energy firm to take a stake in Qatar’s project to expand its LNG outpu...
UK overturns planning advice and approves Sizewell C nuclear plant
THE UK Government has given planning consent to the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, ov...
Imperial College and BASF strengthen partnership that seeks innovative chemicals development
IMPERIAL College London and BASF have strengthened their partnership to advance chemicals develop...
UK sets up centre to advise on critical minerals, amid warnings of supply risks
THE UK has established a Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre in Nottingham to help the country ...
Fukushima bosses ordered to pay billions for failing to prevent nuclear disaster
FOUR former bosses of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been ordered by a Tokyo court to p...
New data hub invites companies to map global supply chains
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Carlsberg fined £3m for fatal ammonia leak
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Plant-based alternative to plastic microbeads set for scaleup
ENGINEERS have received funding to scale up a technology that produces sustainable alternatives t...
BP partners with Abu Dhabi energy firms to develop Teesside hydrogen plants
BP has joined forces with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and the country’s renewable ...
Johnson Matthey shakes up business in wake of battery exit
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Jon Prichard to step down as IChemE CEO
JON PRICHARD will step down as CEO of IChemE on 30 September to take up a new appointment at the ...
Teesside picked for first green fuels plant
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US will invest US$3.5bn in building hubs to suck CO2 from the air
THE US is investing US$3.5bn to create four large-scale direct air capture (DAC) hubs to remove C...
€100m needed for Chernobyl invasion repairs
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Ocone elected to IChemE Board on social responsibility pledge
RAFFAELLA OCONE has been elected to IChemE’s Board of Trustees.
Hinkley Point C costs rise again to £26bn
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Process developers awarded £44m to advance UK hydrogen economy
MEMBRANE reactors, chemical looping processes and thermochemical splitting of water by advanced n...
Australia trade group says security fears should prompt fresh oil development
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Australian universities join forces to commercialise clean tech
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WBCSD and Engie join forces to develop industrial decarbonisation principles
THE World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and sustainability consultancy Eng...
Andrew Livingston elected to the Royal Society
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Experts join forces to push hydrogen production from nuclear energy
THE International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is developing a roadmap for the commercial producti...
UK sets out measures to boost hydrogen and CCS
THE UK Government has put energy at the centre of its legislative agenda as it announced a series...
BP agrees to buy naphtha from Teesside circular plastics plant
BP has signed an agreement to purchase naphtha produced from a plant being built in Teesside, UK ...
Aussie reactor trial seeks to coax coal miners to capture methane
A NOVEL reactor that neutralises methane emissions produced in coal mines will be trialled by Sou...
Ineos awards Técnicas Reunidas contract for massive European chemicals investment
INEOS has awarded Técnicas Reunidas a contract to engineer a world-scale ethylene plant in Belgiu...
Mixed reaction as Government moves to shield heavy industry from spiralling energy costs
THE UK Government is extending a compensation scheme to help shield heavy industry from rising en...
FLSmidth leads work to electrify calcination in bid to cut cement emissions
ENGINEERS are building a pilot plant to electrify production of a clinker replacement that would ...
UK urged to takes systems approach to help decarbonise dispersed manufacturers
WITH dispersed industrial sites producing around half of UK industry emissions, an energy systems...
UK first: Cornish Lithium trials direct extraction of key battery metal from geothermal waters
AT the end of March, Cornish Lithium commissioned the UK’s first direct lithium extraction pilot ...
UK’s state-backed vaccine manufacturing centre sold
THE UK’s emergency vaccine manufacturing innovation centre (VMIC) has been sold to US manufacture...
Compressed air users urged to stop wasting energy
THE British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has launched a campaign to help companies cut their com...
IChemE adds 25 new free-to-access books for members
TWENTY-FIVE new technical books have been added to Knovel for members of IChemE including books o...
RAEng awards £1m to boost diversity success at engineering departments
UK university engineering departments have been awarded £1m (US$1.3m) from the Royal Academy of E...
Royal Mint plant will recover gold from electronics waste
THE UK’s Royal Mint is building a chemical plant that uses a room temperature process to recover ...
BP supports green skills hub to train Teessiders
BP is developing educational programmes with Redcar & Cleveland College that will train people fo...
Croda to expand UK lipids output for vaccine production
CRODA has been awarded £15.9m (US$20.8m) by the UK Government to increase the output of its plant...
Russia blames Ukraine for oil depot blaze
AN oil storage depot has been set on fire in a Russian city north of the Ukrainian border. The lo...
Fluor will engineer Itero’s chemicals recycling process
FLUOR has won the contract to engineer a chemical recycling demonstration plant for Itero in the ...
175 countries commit to create historic global plastics treaty
ONE HUNDRED and seventy-five nations have agreed to create a global treaty to end plastics pollut...
Shell quits Russian oil in wake of controversial trade; UK will halt imports by year end
SHELL has announced it will stop buying Russian oil and gas following its contentious purchase of...
Students invited to apply for Fellowship to brief UK Members of Parliament
STUDENTS who are interested in science and technology policy are invited to apply for the Ashok K...
IChemE calls on UK Government to support engineering green skills
ICHEME has called on the UK Government to support the education and reskilling of engineers to he...
Russia shells Ukrainian nuclear plant; no radiation released
RUSSIAN forces have shelled the site of Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant. A fire broke out a...
Exxon to quit Russia; Total to cease investment
EXXONMOBIL has followed oil majors BP and Shell in committing to exit Russia following its invasi...
Shell becomes latest oil major to quit Russia
SHELL is quitting its joint ventures with Russia’s Gazprom following the invasion of Ukraine.
Boukouvala awarded IChemE’s first Junior Sargent Medal, as Institution announces annual prize winners
ICHEME’S inaugural Junior Sargent Medal has been awarded to Fani Boukouvala for her development o...
Turbocharging towards CO2-free cracking
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New energy record is ‘resounding confirmation in global fusion quest’
FUSION researchers have achieved a record-breaking sustained burst of energy that they say is the...
CO2 supply agreement reached as chemicals sector suffers climbing costs
UK industry has reached an updated agreement to ensure supplies of CO2 keep flowing as a trade gr...
Engineers Assemble: Royal Academy of Engineering calls meeting on ethics
ENGINEERS from across disciplines are being invited to attend the launch of a new report and pane...
‘Biotech pioneer’ Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of fraud
ELIZABETH HOLMES, a former chemical engineering student who garnered praise as a Silicon Valley b...
IChemE dramatically expands its Knowledge Hub
ICHEME has increased the number of resources available on its Knowledge Hub from 10,000 to almost...
Veolia announces its first UK battery recycling plant
VEOLIA is building its first electric vehicle battery recycling facility in the UK, with the capa...
Petronas and Shell join forces on CCS for Malaysia
PETRONAS and Shell have teamed up to study opportunities to collaborate on the use of carbon capt...
McDermott awarded contract to help expand Qatar LNG production
MCDERMOTT has been awarded a contract to provide topsides and pipelines that will help significan...
Johnson Matthey targets greener aviation demand with new reverse water gas shift technology
JOHNSON Matthey (JM) has launched a new reverse water gas shift technology called HyCOgen to prod...
RSC calls for action to reuse huge volumes of leftover paint
THE UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is calling for the Government to support a national rem...
Poll: Engineers warn sale of UK vaccine centre risks health security and industry innovation
ENGINEERS have hit out at the UK Government’s reported plans to sell off the country’s emergency ...
Farewell to 2021, and what to read while we’re away
WHETHER it’s serious engineering lessons and insights on career opportunities, or irreverent quer...
IChemE publishes accreditation guidance
ICHEME has updated its accreditation guidance for chemical engineering degree programmes and publ...
Sugar beet could kickstart Scottish bioeconomy
GROWING sugar beet in Scotland and processing it at a new biorefinery could help the country beco...
ITM and BOC get gov funding for integrated electrolyser
THE UK Government has backed the construction of an electrolyser in Scotland that will be integra...
Fire destroys UK plastics factory
A PLASTICS factory near Hull in the UK has been destroyed by a fire.
Shell invests in upgrader as it pivots towards circular chemicals at Singapore site
SHELL will build a new pyrolysis oil upgrader unit at its Pulau Bukom site in Singapore as part o...
Bill Gates’ nuclear company picks coal site for new nuclear plant
BILL GATES’ nuclear reactor company plans to build its first sodium fast reactor at the site of a...
Woodside approves US$12bn LNG investment and BHP oil merger
WOODSIDE has approved a US$12bn investment in the Scarborough gas field and expansion of its Plut...
Peter Ashman helms Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers
PETER ASHMAN is the new Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers ...
ABSL agrees to develop five UK gasification plants to turn waste to fuel
ADVANCED BIOFUEL SOLUTIONS (ABSL) has signed an agreement with biofuels supplier Greenergy to con...
Shell plans to move HQ to UK
ROYAL Dutch Shell (“Shell”) plans to move its headquarters to the UK as it seeks to simplify its ...
Woodside sells venture stake in push to expand Pluto LNG
WOODSIDE has sold a 49% stake in its venture to add a new LNG train to its Pluto plant in Western...
Petrofac wins Petronas gas plant contract
PETROFAC has been awarded a US$96m contract by Petronas to build a new gas plant onshore at Tanju...
Rolls-Royce pushes ahead with funding for small modular reactor development
ROLLS-ROYCE is moving ahead with plans to develop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) and has e...
Johnson Matthey will exit battery materials
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) is quitting its battery materials business after concluding the costs are to...
Solenis sold and merged with Sigura
SPECIALTY chemicals firm Solenis has merged with Sigura following its completed sale by BASF.
Plastic Energy and Axens join forces to license circular plastics processes
PLASTIC ENERGY has partnered with engineering services firm Axens to license its plastics recycli...
ExxonMobil and Petronas explore CCS for Malaysia
EXXONMOBIL and Petronas are working together to explore opportunities for carbon capture and stor...
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23 student-led teams have won the first US$5m portion of the US$100m carbon removal prize launche...
CRI will build second Chinese plant to produce methanol from industrial emissions
CARBON Recycling International (CRI) has agreed to design a plant to produce methanol from captur...
UK strategy is pivot point for fusion development
Experts welcome UK plans to build fusion demonstrator
Clean TeQ Water wins top accolade at IChemE Awards
A WASTEWATER treatment process that uses bacteria immobilised in plastic lenses has been awarded ...
Water experts issue call to action on climate
AN alliance of experts from across the water sector, including from IChemE, has issued a call to ...
Biotech demonstrator will produce acetone from captured industrial emissions
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HyNet secures new hydrogen customers
MAJOR producers of food, ceramics, glass, paper and cars – including PepsiCo and Jaguar Land Rove...
Dow plans zero emissions ethylene complex
DOW plans to create the world’s first net-zero emissions ethylene and derivatives complex, throug...
New partners join industrial initiative to electrify EU crackers
REPSOL and Versalis have joined the Cracker of the Future consortium, which is working to develop...
North-west industry calls for UK Government action to support green growth
INDUSTRY in north-west England has published a manifesto, calling on the UK Government to impleme...
Businesses must commit to net zero to bid for UK gov contracts
ALL companies bidding for UK Government contracts must have committed to produce net zero emissio...
IChemE releases career insights video series
ICHEME has released a series of videos that feature members sharing their career journeys and pro...
Chemical engineers join Biden advisory panel
TWO chemical engineers – Frances Arnold and Paula Hammond – will advise US President Joe Biden as...
UK CO2 users agree short-term price fix to keep gas flowing
INDUSTRIAL gas users in the UK have struck a short-term deal on the prices they pay for CO2 to ke...
John Bridgwater, 1938–2021
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UK Government props up industry to prevent CO2 shortage
THE UK Government has been forced to step in and pay for industry to keep producing CO2 after a r...
UK regulator relaxes effluent rules as water treatment firms begin running out of chemicals
A SHORTAGE of chemicals used to treat wastewater in the UK has led the Environment Agency to rela...
Xodus to design Petronas’ first CCS facility
PETRONAS has awarded energy consultancy Xodus the conceptual engineering design contract for the ...
Miner BHP could exit oil and gas through merger with Woodside
BHP is exploring options to exit the oil and gas sector by merging its assets with Woodside.
Australia expands role of renewables funding agency to support CCS, hydrogen and greener metals
THE Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) now has a wider remit that includes funding CCS an...
Engineering X outlines strategy for the profession to lead on safety in complex systems
FACED with an increasingly complex and interconnected world, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RA...
Four more industry players sign up for BP’s Teesside hydrogen plans
BP has signed MoUs with four customers interested in using hydrogen produced at its proposed prod...
Engineered yeast strain could revive interest in non-food bio-feedstocks
CHEMICAL engineers at MIT have genetically engineered yeast that are tolerant to toxic biorefinin...
Greener steel: Primetals successfully tests 100% hydrogen reduction process
PRIMETALS has successfully tested a pilot-scale process that promises several breakthroughs in th...
UK regulator publishes carbon capture guidance
THE UK Environment Agency has published guidance on the best available techniques (BAT) for post-...
Glass industry sketches process technology route for reaching net zero
THE UK’s glass industry has said it faces a challenging road ahead in meeting net zero targets, a...
Sheffield Forgemasters bought by UK Government
THE UK Government has nationalised steel producer Sheffield Forgemasters to secure the supplies o...
UK seeks input on plans to use high temperature nuclear reactors to produce heat for industry
HIGH temperature gas nuclear reactors (HTGRs) could provide low-carbon process heat to help decar...
Two workers killed in acetic acid leak
TWO workers have been killed by an acetic acid leak at a LyondellBasell plant in Texas, US.
Johnson Matthey set targets to lower waste and improve safety on journey to net zero
JOHNSON MATTHEY has announced targets to heavily focus its sales and R&D spend in line with UN Su...
Rio Tinto studies using hydrogen to make greener alumina
RIO TINTO is investigating the technical implications of using hydrogen feedstock instead of natu...
Siemens and BioNTech commit to accelerate Covid-19 vaccine scale-out, starting in Singapore
SIEMENS and BioNTech say they will build a Covid-19 vaccine facility in Singapore, as part of eff...
Jane Cutler becomes 80th IChemE President
JANE Cutler has become the 80th President of IChemE. She delivered an expansive Presidential addr...
Dairy pioneer Kevin Marshall honoured by the Queen
KEVIN Marshall has been made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the Queen, for his ...
Controversial Keystone XL pipeline formally terminated
THE controversial Keystone XL pipeline has been formally scrapped, ending a decades-long struggle...
Dungeness B will begin decommissioning seven years ahead of schedule
THE UK’s Dungeness B nuclear power station will begin decommissioning activities some seven years...
Student team’s potato mask wins inaugural John Davidson competition
A TEAM of school students who developed a biodegradable face mask made from potato starch have wo...
Cement major plans world’s first carbon-neutral production plant
HEIDELBERGCEMENT plans to retrofit its plant in Sweden to capture 1.8m t/y of CO2, and become wha...
Oil spill preparations underway for stricken ship off Sri Lanka
EXPERTS have begun modelling how oil might spill from a cargo ship that caught fire off the coast...
ADNOC awards ‘blue’ ammonia contract to Wood
ABU Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has awarded a contract for Wood to design a 'blue' ammonia...
NZ’s only refinery takes a step closer to closing
NEW ZEALAND’S sole refinery is another step closer to being converted into an import terminal aft...
Fire at Aussie power plant set to knock out unit for 12 months
A FIRE at the Callide coal-fired power plant in Queensland, Australia has caused blackouts across...
David Bogle elected as IChemE’s 81st President
DAVID Bogle has been elected as IChemE’s President for 2022/3. The news comes as IChemE announced...
Hydrogen Valley planned for Aussie coal country
A CONSORTIUM has outlined proposals to create a ‘hydrogen valley’ in the Hunter Valley region of ...
Industry joins RSC taskforce to chart a greener path for PLFs
UNILEVER, Croda and Crown Paints have joined a taskforce convened by the Royal Society of Chemist...
Solvay switches soda ash plant from coal to biomass
SOLVAY says its soda ash plant in Rheinberg, Germany will become the first in the world to use 10...
Aker Solutions wins contract to design E-fuel plant
AKER SOLUTIONS has won a contract to design a plant in Norway that will use renewable power, wate...
Webinar: Designing effective emission abatement systems
ON 28 April, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar about using data analytics to design the most...
South Australia agrees A$1bn for hydrogen, CCS and more gas
SOUTH Australia has agreed a A$1bn (US$770m) investment with the Federal Government that includes...
Veolia agrees deal for Suez, merging world’s largest water firms
VEOLIA has agreed a deal to buy its rival Suez, ending a fraught takeover battle that merges the ...
IChemE pays tribute to Royal Patron Prince Philip
ICHEME has paid tribute to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and his time as Royal Patron of ...
Lanxess enters battery electrolyte sector
LANXESS is taking its first step into the battery chemistry market through a deal to manufacture ...
Santos greenlights Australia’s largest oil and gas investment in close to a decade
SANTOS has sanctioned a US$3.6bn investment in the Barossa gas project off Australia’s Northern T...
New fund seeks to boost investment and diversity of South Africa energy
A R1.5bn (US$102m) investment fund has been launched in South Africa to boost investment in the c...
Pilot plant will convert soybean waste into bioplastic
A FINNISH consortium is building a pilot plant to convert waste from soybean processing into comp...
Covestro pilots chemicals recycling process to close loop on used mattress foam
COVESTRO has begun to pilot a chemical process to recycle the foam from used mattresses. If succe...
Plastic Energy joins forces with ExxonMobil on plastic waste
PLASTIC ENERGY has agreed another partnership with an industry heavyweight – this time ExxonMobil...
Fonterra supports NZ industry switch from coal – but outlines significant challenges
FONTERRA – New Zealand’s huge dairy cooperative – has come out in support of plans to end coal us...
Greener chemicals: steam cracking could go electric by 2023
BASF, SABIC and Linde aim to construct a multi-megawatt plant to demonstrate that steam crackers ...
Researchers look to recover waste anaesthetics
A TEAM of chemical engineers and doctors are developing a new membrane to capture and reuse anaes...
Energy and medical research experts to share Covid-19 safety lessons at IChemE Hazards conference
ICHEME has announced that process safety experts from the energy and medical research sectors wil...
BP plans 1 GW hydrogen hub for Teesside
BP is planning to build a 1 GW hydrogen production project in Teesside, UK, that would meet 20% o...
DuPont buys Laird Performance Materials
DUPONT has agreed to buy Laird Performance Materials for US$2.3bn.
Richardson: Make systems thinking education mandatory
ICHEME President Stephen Richardson has recommended to a House of Lords select committee that sys...
Yallourn coal plant will shut early, replacement battery planned
AUSTRALIA’S Yallourn coal-fired power plant, which meets 20% of electricity demand in Victoria, w...
Novartis joins effort to produce CureVac vaccine for Covid-19
NOVARTIS has signed an agreement to manufacture CureVac’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate at its site ...
Engineering regulator issues fresh guidance on sustainability
SUSTAINABILITY guidance for engineering professionals has been issued by the Engineering Council,...
GSK to close two UK antibiotics manufacturing sites
GSK is closing two UK antibiotics manufacturing operations, in Barnard Castle and Ulverston.
Closure of Altona refinery fuels concerns about Australian manufacturing
EXXONMOBIL is closing its Altona refinery in Victoria, Australia. The decision comes hot on the h...
Elon Musk puts up US$100m prize for carbon removal tech
TECH billionaire Elon Musk is launching a US$100m prize for innovators who can remove CO2 from th...
UK offers £40m for manufacturers to plan and deploy greener technologies
THE UK Government is offering £40m (US$56m) in funding for energy-intensive companies to conduct ...
New Kletz book compiles safety pioneer’s lessons for a new generation
ICHEME has published a new book showcasing the works of process safety pioneer Trevor Kletz.
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LED pioneers win Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
FIVE engineers who helped develop LED lighting have won the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engine...
Brexit: relief rapidly gives way to fresh concerns
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Closure of New Zealand smelter delayed to 2024
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Modular nuclear plan put forward for Wylfa
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Shell resumes production at massive floating LNG plant
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Shell buys into waste-to-fuels plant in Québec
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Ebola vaccine stockpile established
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Solvay sells amphoteric surfactant business to private equity firm
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CureVac joins forces with Bayer to speed up supply of Covid-19 vaccine
CUREVAC has agreed to work with Bayer to accelerate the development and supply of its Covid-19 va...
BASF starts up new MDI unit in push to double Geismar production
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Bagshaw awarded CBE in New Year Honours
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Australia offers A$76.8m support for Portland smelter
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AstraZeneca buys Alexion for US$39bn
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IChemE awards engineers who 3D print reactors
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Attention turns to vaccine production following successful trials
FOLLOWING three highly-encouraging Covid-19 vaccine trials, the light at the end of the tunnel su...
Four killed in explosion at UK water treatment site
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ExxonMobil to keep Bass Strait stake
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Petronas aspires to be net zero by 2050
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Plastic Energy’s push to close loop on plastics wins top IChemE Award
A PROCESS to chemically recycle plastic waste that cannot be mechanically recycled won IChemE’s t...
Suez agrees to explore CCS for energy-to-waste plants
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IChemE publishes position on climate change, committing to net zero
ICHEME has published its position statement on climate change, committing to collaborate in the g...
Prelude will not resume full production this year, says Shell
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Nuclear cogeneration pushed as solution for low carbon heat
COGENERATION of heat by new nuclear plants could help balance intermittent renewables and provide...
Petronas wins four awards at IChemE Malaysia ceremony
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Engineers tell government how PPE could be reused in the UK
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Evonik and Siemens test plant to produce chemicals from carbon dioxide
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Sasol forms polyethylene JV with LyondellBasell
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Chrysaor and Premier merger will create UK’s largest independent oil firm
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ExxonMobil will cut 1,600 jobs in Europe
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Dow will close chemicals plants on top of job cuts
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BP and Microsoft join forces on Industry 4.0 and clean energy
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IChemE Fellows Ding, Edwards and Matar elected to RAEng
THREE ICHEME Fellows – Yulong Ding, David Edwards and Omar Matar – have been elected as Fellows o...
LyondellBasell starts up pilot plant to recycle plastics
LYONDELLBASELL has started operation of a new pilot plant for a pyrolysis process that it is deve...
Robert Gore, inventor of Gore-Tex, has died aged 83
ROBERT “Bob” Gore, chemical engineer and renowned inventor of Gore-Tex has died at the age of 83.
Pale Blue Dot forms partnership to capture CO2 from air in the UK
PALE Blue Dot has signed an agreement with Carbon Engineering to work together on deploying direc...
UK will review how to license North Sea production while achieving net zero emissions
THE UK Government has launched a review into how it will license the offshore oil and gas industr...
PSE and Siemens join partnership to advance continuous drug manufacturing
THE UK’s Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre has expanded its partners to include PSE, Siem...
IChemE calls on community to nominate peers for prizes
ICHEME is calling on the chemical engineering community to make nominations for its annual medals...
BASF will publish carbon footprints for 45,000 products
BASF will release data on the carbon footprints of its entire portfolio of approximately 45,000 p...
Air Liquide buys world’s largest oxygen operation
AIR LIQUIDE is buying the world’s largest oxygen production site – from Sasol in South Africa – a...
SABIC chemical plant will be 100% solar-powered
SABIC’S polycarbonate facility in Cartagena, Spain, is set to become the world’s first large-scal...
Scientists demonstrate powdered vaccine can break the cold chain
SCIENTISTS have taken a step forward in breaking the so-called vaccine “cold chain” by creating a...
IChemE opens member consultation on climate change position
ICHEME has launched a draft climate change position statement for members to comment on.
NSW gives greenlight to Santos’ controversial coal seam gas project
AUSTRALIA’S New South Wales government has backed Santos’ A$3.6bn (US$2.54bn) Narrabri gas develo...
Glencore faces criticism as it pushes ahead with new coal mine
GLENCORE is a step closer to having a new A$1.5bn (US$1.05bn) open-cut coal mine approved by Aust...
Dow aims to be carbon neutral by 2050
DOW has set a target to be carbon neutral by 2050 and that all the packaging its chemicals produc...
IChemE identifies vaccine production capabilities
ICHEME has compiled a list of manufacturing sites in the UK and Ireland that have the potential c...
BASF lends supercomputer to fight against Covid-19
BASF has been using its supercomputer to help identify molecules that might help in the fight aga...
BP exits petrochemicals, sells plants to Ineos
BP is selling its petrochemicals business, including interests in 14 production sites, to Ineos f...
Partners join forces to develop micro nuclear reactor
THREE partners have joined forces in Canada to demonstrate a 15 MW small modular reactor that wou...
Heriot-Watt receives IChemE accreditation at three campuses
HERIOT-WATT University has had its chemical engineering programmes at its campuses in Dubai and M...
Explosion at UK oilseed plant injures three
AN explosion at an oilseed processing plant in the UK has injured three people.
Partners join forces to supply turnkey biotech plants
SIEMENS has formed a partnership with process plant designer Exyte to quickly deliver turnkey bio...
IChemE showcases climate change research
ICHEME has published a collection of journal articles to showcase research published by chemical ...
RAEng reviews engineering controls to fight Covid-19
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has published a rapid review of engineering control...
Jane Cutler wins election to become IChemE Deputy President
JANE Cutler has been elected to take up the position of IChemE Deputy President from June.
Urgent call for members to donate unused PPE for testing
ICHEME is calling on members and their employers to donate any unused PPE they can spare to a vol...
UK gas networks join forces for net zero
THE engineering expertise of the UK’s gas network operators have joined forces to outline how to ...
UK funds projects vying to develop net zero industrial clusters
THE UK Government has given funding to groups that are competing to develop the world’s first net...
CEPI invests US$338m in manufacturing a Covid-19 vaccine
THE Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is investing US$338m to develop and ma...
IChemE members join group advising government on net zero plans
ICHEME members are working with representatives of the wider engineering discipline to advise the...
Vattenfall plans London heat network
VATTENFALL will design a heat network to supply more than 10,000 homes in London, using heat capt...
Trump declares national emergency over threat to power system
US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over threats to the country’s power s...
LG Chem invests US$53m to triple nanotube production
LG CHEM is more than tripling its production of carbon nanotubes for the burgeoning electric vehi...
Covid-19 vaccine could be ready by year end, says AZ CEO
ASTRAZENECA says it could begin production of a vaccine for Covid-19 by the end of the year after...
John Morelly Solbett 1919–2020
Obituary of John Solbett, former IChemE President
IChemE volunteers identify areas of focus to help fight pandemic
ICHEME’S volunteer Covid-19 Response Team has divided into distinct workstreams, including on dia...
Liveris joins Australia’s business response group
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris, former CEO of Dow Chemical, has joined a commission established...
Anim-Somuah recognised by Forbes
THADDEUS Anim-Somuah has been recognised by media outlet Forbes as one of its 30 people under the...
Woodside joins hydrogen-as-ammonia study
WOODSIDE has joined a consortium to study exporting hydrogen as ammonia from Australia to Japan.
UK launches vaccine taskforce to co-ordinate scaleup
THE UK Government has today announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the...
OPEC agrees to cut global oil by 10% but there are fears it is not enough
OPEC has agreed to cut global oil output by around 10% in response to the coronavirus pandemic, e...
More than a quarter of Europe’s ethylene capacity under threat
AROUND 6.6m t/y – or 26% – of Europe’s ethylene production capacity is threatened by reduced acti...
Exxon cuts spending in response to coronavirus
EXXONMOBIL is cutting capital spending this year by 30% and operating expenses by 15% in response...
Update: Coronavirus delays Forties shutdown to 2021
INEOS has extended plans to postpone the shutdown of the Forties oil pipeline which transports to...
Woodside CEO: Browse project could get carbon capture from day one
WOODSIDE says it will add a carbon capture project to its Browse gas project off the coast of Wes...
UK relaxes rules to speed up sanitiser production
THE UK Government and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have relaxed rules over the manufactu...
BP protects jobs for three months
BP has announced that it will not be cutting any jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus delays Forties shutdown
INEOS is postponing the shutdown of the Forties oil pipeline which transports to shore around 40%...
Victoria lifts ban on onshore gas development
AUSTRALIA’s Victoria state Government is lifting a ban on conventional onshore gas development an...
Ineos completes construction of two sanitiser plants
INEOS has completed construction of two new hand sanitiser production plants in the UK and German...
Industry pushes to keep staff safe and plants running
Industry reacts to keep staff and plants running during pandemic
UK workers in critical sectors could still send children to school
THE UK Government has announced that the children of those working in the healthcare supply chain...
BASF joins forces to plan electric car battery recycling cluster
BASF, Fortum and Nornickel are planning a recycling centre in Finland that would recover metals f...
Engineering capability review raises safety concerns
FATALITIES and accidents at work are likely to increase, and a better understanding of engineerin...
Teesside industry evolves its CCS pitch and pushes plans to host net zero cluster
A CONSORTIUM operated by BP is pitching for the UK Government to support the development of a net...
One dead in Spain chemical plant explosion
AN explosion at a small chemicals plant in Barcelona, Spain has killed one and injured 13 others,...
Canada awards Lister for his contributions to nuclear and safety
DEREK LISTER has been appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to nuclear ...
UK confirms £800m for carbon capture clusters
THE UK has confirmed in its budget today that it will invest £800m (US$1bn) in a carbon capture a...
Manchester Uni students win IChemE prize for designing greener process
A TEAM of students from University of Manchester, UK, has won IChemE’s Macnab-Lacey Prize for the...
BPE joins On Line Group
UK ENGINEERING consultancy BPE has been bought by On Line Group, an integrated engineering servic...
Coronavirus: the push to produce a vaccine
WITH more than 75,000 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection having killed more than 2,0...
Steve Rae to give Trevor Kletz lecture
PIPER Alpha survivor Steve Rae will share the story of how his survival has led to a lifelong dri...
IChemE medal winners announced
ENERGY experts and dedicated volunteers are among 26 chemical engineers being recognised by IChem...
INEOS to produce plastics from wood-derived oil
INEOS has signed an agreement to use naphtha derived from wood pulp processing to manufacture bio...
Atkins wins Shell technical safety contract
ATKINS has been awarded a five-year contract to provide technical safety and human factors servic...
World Engineering Day set for 4 March
WORLD Engineering Day for Sustainable Development will be celebrated on 4 March every year as a U...
LSC member quits over climate change concerns
TOM BAXTER has resigned from IChemE’s Learned Society Committee (LSC) because he feels the Instit...
DuPont buys out UCD spinout OxyMem
DUPONT has bought out OxyMem, a wastewater technology company that was spun out of University Col...
Foo granted Fellowship by Academy of Sciences Malaysia
ICHEME Fellow Dominic Foo has been made a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM).
UK’s landmark trial to heat buildings with hydrogen is fully operational
THE UK’s first project to inject hydrogen into the gas grid is underway at Keele University.
Prince William launches Earthshot Prize to repair the planet
PRINCE WILLIAM has launched a new initiative, billed as the world’s most prestigious environmenta...
NZ PM visits milk processing plant to see novel boiler and launch tree-planting scheme
NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has visited milk processing company Synlait for a tour ...
Malaysia PM: Petronas could be sold to pay down debt
STAKES in state-energy firm Petronas could be sold to Malaysia’s oil-producing states to raise mo...
Repsol outlines net zero 2050 target
SPAIN’S oil and gas firm Repsol has outlined plans to be carbon neutral by 2050.
Jones awarded RACI Distinguished Fellowship
ICHEME Fellow Clifford Jones has been awarded a Distinguished Fellowship by the Royal Australian ...
Communication troubles are holding back UK biotech
ENGINEERING biology must learn to communicate better if the breakout discipline is to achieve its...
UK Government match-funds small modular nuclear reactors
THE UK Government is investing £18m (US$23m) in a partnership with industry led by Rolls Royce to...
UK oil contractors report rising green demand
UK oil and gas contractors have reported a significant increase in demand for their services from...
Exxon commits £140m investment in Fife plant
EXXONMOBIL will invest £140m (US$173m) in its ethylene plant in Fife, UK, over the next two years...
Behold the Plastic Age: synthetic fibres found in fossil record
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in s...
UK gives international students two years to stay following graduation
INTERNATIONAL students at UK universities will now be able to extend their stay up to two years a...
BP on continuous hunt for methane leaks
BP says it is deploying technology to continuously detect, measure and reduce methane emissions f...
Food, fuel and drug supplies at no-deal Brexit risk, Government warns
THE UK Government has warned in a document it has been forced to disclose that a no-deal Brexit c...
IChemE announces Global Awards finalists
ICHEME has announced there are more than 100 finalists shortlisted for its annual Global Awards.
Rejigged rigs could kickstart North Sea CCS, study finds
USING North Sea oil rigs to generate power from methane and bury the resulting emissions would be...
Oil and gas majors are undermining climate goals, report warns
OIL and gas companies have approved US$50bn of investment since 2018 in major projects that under...
Gorgon CCS plant starts up after two-year delay
CHEVRON’S US$54bn Gorgon LNG project has started operation of one of the world’s largest carbon c...
DuPont wins alkylation licence for grassroots China refinery
DUPONT Clean Technologies is licensing its alkylation technology to Shenghong Petrochemical for a...
Aramco awards US$18bn in contracts to expand oil and gas production
SAUDI ARAMCO has awarded contracts worth US$18bn to build process plants and expand oil productio...
Covestro partners with 3D printing pioneer to scale up production
COVESTRO is working to scale up the production of a resin developed by Silicon Valley firm Carbon...
Neste and LyondellBasell claim bioplastic first
NESTE and LyondellBasell are claiming an industry-first with the parallel, commercial-scale produ...
Linde to invest US$1.4bn in Exxon Singapore supply deal
LINDE is investing US$1.4bn to expand its gasification complex at Jurong Island in Singapore as p...
Petronas agrees partnership to develop oil industry chemicals
PETRONAS Chemicals Group (PCG) and Scomi Energy Services have agreed to work together to research...
CSB calls for new onshore drilling rules after blowout kills five
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has urged regulators to develop safety standards for onshore o...
Petronas Chemicals looks to convert waste plastic into feedstock
PETRONAS Chemicals is investigating building a plant to turn plastic waste into virgin feedstock ...
IChemE Member attends palace ceremony for Queens Award
ICHEME Member Irteza Piracha has attended a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after the company he le...
Ineos makes first investment in Saudi Arabia
INEOS is making its first investment in Saudi Arabia, committing to build three new chemicals pla...
Wolverhampton chemical engineering course accredited by IChemE
THE University of Wolverhampton has had its chemical engineering degree accredited by IChemE.
Warwick Davis to host the IChemE Global Awards 2019
ACTOR Warwick Davis will host IChemE’s Global Awards on 7 November in Hull, UK.
Royal Charter and By-law changes approved at IChemE AGM
VOTING Members (Fellows and Chartered Members) of IChemE have approved changes to its Royal Chart...
WHP wins contract for new UK vaccine centre
ENGINEERING contractor WHP has won a contract to help design the UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing Inno...
HeidelbergCement sets Paris-aligned emissions targets
HEIDELBERGCEMENT has set targets to reduce its emissions in line with the Paris Agreement climate...
Cattle feed and dye membranes win MIT water prize
ENTREPRENEURS who are developing process technologies to remove dyes from industrial wastewater a...
Anadarko agrees to review Occidental’s hostile bid
CHEVRON’S agreed merger with Anadarko Petroleum looks under threat after the US independent said ...
Occidental makes hostile US$57bn bid for Chevron
OCCIDENTAL has made a hostile bid for Anadarko Petroleum, trumping a US$50bn bid from Chevron.
ExxonMobil will invest US$1bn expanding UK refinery
EXXONMOBIL has made a final investment decision to spend more than US$1bn expanding its Fawley re...
MPs call for government support on hydrogen and CCS
MEMBERS of Parliament speaking at an event to showcase clean energy have noted that in the wake o...
Aramco buys Shell’s 50% stake in SASREF
SAUDI ARAMCO is buying Shell’s 50% share of the SASREF joint venture in Jubail Industrial City, S...
Chrysaor buys ConocoPhillips UK oil assets
CHRYSAOR has agreed to buy ConocoPhillips North Sea assets for US$2.67bn, making it one of the la...
Workers start to remove Fukushima fuel rods
TEPCO has begun work to remove 566 highly-radioactive fuel rod assemblies from reactor building n...
Carbon-negative concrete wins inaugural CCUS prize
A CARBON-NEGATIVE form of concrete has won an inaugural prize that recognises the potential of us...
Higman awarded IChemE Hebden Medal
CHRIS Higman has been awarded IChemE’s Hebden Medal for his contributions to gasification.
CEO wants Occidental to become carbon neutral
OCCIDENTAL Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub has said she wants the international oil firm to become car...
Chevron set to become fourth ultramajor with US$33bn buyout of Anadarko Petroleum
CHEVRON has agreed to buy Anadarko Petroleum for US$33bn, propelling it into the position of four...
BP joins effort to make paraxylene from biological sources
BP has formed a partnership with Virent and Johnson Matthey to commercialise a process that produ...
IChemE adds new titles to members’ online library
ICHEME has added 20 new books to Knovel, its free online library for members.
Worker killed in Texas chemicals plant fire
ONE worker has been killed and two seriously injured in a chemicals plant fire in Texas, US.
Saudi Aramco set to take 70% stake in SABIC
SAUDI Aramco has agreed to buy a 70% stake in SABIC for US$69.1bn. It is part of national plans t...
Warnings new UK coal mine undermines green ambitions
THE UK’s first deep coal mine in 30 years has been given the go ahead by Cumbria County Council, ...
Fire extinguished at US chemicals depot
AFTER three days fighting a fire that was spreading through a chemicals storage depot in Texas, U...
Shell plans to becomes world’s largest power firm
SHELL is set to become one of the largest power companies in the world, its Director of New Energ...
US storage depot ablaze
EIGHT chemicals storage tanks are ablaze at a major petrochemicals depot on the US Gulf Coast.
Catalyst firm Haldor Topsøe sells 30% stake to Temasek
DANISH engineering firm Haldor Topsøe is selling a 30% stake in its business to Singapore state i...
Chemical engineers quiz MPs on science funding and single-use plastic
IN a reversal of roles, chemical engineers took the opportunity yesterday to quiz UK policy leade...
Chemical engineer briefs UK politicians on chemical weapons
CHEMICAL engineering postgraduate Jeni Spragg has produced a report to help UK parliamentarians m...
DowDuPont cleaves off safety consultancy
DOWDUPONT is spinning off its safety and sustainability consultancy DuPont Sustainable Solutions ...
Richardson set to become IChemE Deputy President
ICHEME has announced that Stephen Richardson will be presented to the AGM for election as Deputy ...
OGTC funds effort to create digital twins of pressure vessels
THE UK’s Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is funding a project for software firm Akselos to dev...
ExxonMobil awards contract for new PP unit in Baton Rouge
EXXONMOBIL is investing in a new polypropylene production unit at its Baton Rouge complex in Loui...
Offer to create world’s largest gold miner descends into spat
A WAR of words has broken out between the leaders of Barrick Gold and Newmont Mining after the la...
Evonik sells methacrylates business for €3bn
EVONIK is selling its methacrylates business to private equity firm Advent International for €3bn...
Ineos commits £1bn for UK oil pipeline and new chemicals plant
INEOS will invest £1bn (US$1.3bn) in the UK, modernising the Forties pipeline system, building a ...
Texas set for world’s greenest refinery
MERIDIAN Energy Group has announced plans to build what it claims will be the world’s cleanest re...
UK-Japan venture seeks to build small nuclear reactor in North East England
THE UK’s Penultimate Power has agreed to form a joint venture with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency...
Producing ammonia with plasma
CHEMICAL engineers have produced ammonia from nitrogen and water using plasma, in a process that ...
IChemE announces annual medal winners
TWENTY-SIX chemical engineers have been recognised by the IChemE Medals and Prizes Committee for ...
Fujifilm and unis join forces on bioprocessing innovation
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, a contract developer and manufacturer, has partnered with the ...
IChemE seeks applications for new student safety medal
ICHEME has launched a new prize – called the SIESO Medal – to recognise student presentations abo...
BP invests in AI to accelerate upstream projects
BP has invested US$5m in artificial intelligence technology in a bid to speed up projects.
IChemE names safety prize in Sam Mannan’s honour
SAM Mannan, a safety expert who died last year, will have a prize named in his honour at IChemE’s...
Permian growth prompts Exxon to build third unit at Beaumont refinery
EXXONMOBIL has started building a third crude unit at its Beaumont refinery in Texas, US, in a mo...
GPS pioneers win prestigious QEPrize
FOUR engineers responsible for creating the first global, satellite-based positioning system – GP...
Drax declares world-first carbon capture at biomass power plant
THE UK’s DRAX power station has begun capturing carbon, and has described the development as the ...
ADNOC sells refining stake to European partners
THE Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has sold off a 35% stake in its refining business to I...
£20m boost for UK steel and biotech
BIOMANUFACTURING and the steel sector have each been awarded £10m in funding to help commercialis...
Perkins report finds scant progress on engineering skills
FIVE years on from the publication of his engineering skills review for the UK Government, former...
Wood and KBR win backfill project for Shell’s Prelude FLNG
WOOD and KBR have won a contract to design the facility that will provide backfill gas to Shell’s...
ExxonMobil commits to US LNG export investment
EXXONMOBIL and Qatar Petroleum will invest more than US$10bn in the Golden Pass LNG export projec...
IChemE, Chester Uni and industry join forces on first chemeng apprenticeship
ICHEME, the University of Chester, and major employers in the region are working together to offe...
Fatal dam breach in Brazil leaves hundreds missing
A TAILINGS dam in Brazil has collapsed, leaving a reported 16 people dead and 297 missing. Other ...
INEOS picks Antwerp for €3bn cracker and PDH unit
INEOS has selected Antwerp in Belgium as the site for its €3bn (US$3.4bn) investment in the first...
BASF selects Zhanjiang for new integrated chemicals complex
BASF has picked Zhanjiang as the site for its new US$10bn chemicals complex in China.
Alvin Nienow wins Peter Dunnill Award
ICHEME Fellow Alvin Nienow has received the Peter Dunnill Award in recognition of his outstanding...
IChemE members honoured by Malaysia science academy
SIX IChemE members have been recognised for their research excellence by the Academy of Sciences ...
GSK and Pfizer merge consumer healthcare businesses
GSK and Pfizer are merging their consumer healthcare businesses in a move that will create a mark...
Engineers publish £22bn blueprint for UK to take global lead on hydrogen heating
ENGINEERS have called on the UK government to immediately spend £125m (US$159m) designing a hydro...
Westminster Abbey hosts engineering celebration
ENGINEERING was the focus of celebration today at a first-of-a-kind national service held at Lond...
BASF announces strategy to boost growth but keep emissions flat
BASF has outlined a strategy to outpace average global chemical sales while stagnating emissions.
RAEng and Lloyd’s Register launch £15m safety initiative and call on others to join
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyd’s Register Foundation have announced a £15m (US$1...
Hackitt and Daniels honoured by Imperial College
FORMER IChemE Council members Dame Judith Hackitt and Ed Daniels have been awarded honorary degre...
Wood wins work on Anglesey nuclear project
WOOD has won a contract to support Hitachi’s work as architect engineer for the Wylfa Newydd nucl...
Science illustrated: Quentin Blake artwork opens at Science Museum
LAST night London’s Science Museum unveiled a series of drawings by renowned illustrator Quentin ...
Consortium bails out Singapore water treatment firm Hyflux
TROUBLED Singapore water treatment firm Hyflux has been rescued by a S$530m (US$384m) investment ...
IChemE members invited to name Centenary project
THE IChemE Centenary Steering Committee, with approval from the Board of Trustees, has invited co...
Queen of Perak presents IChemE Awards to outstanding young engineers
Her Royal Highness Zara Salim, Queen of Perak, presented two promising chemical engineers with tr...
UK set to see surge in biomethane plants
THE UK is set to see a 50% rise in biomethane plants operating by 2020, with as much as £400m (US...
Smaller cheaper plants: Exxon and BASF tout improved gas-treating solvent
EXXONMOBIL and BASF are carrying out a full-scale commercial demonstration of a new gas-treating ...
Chemicals coalition calls on EU leaders to allow UK to remain within REACH
A COALTION of European chemicals NGOs has called on politicians negotiating the terms of Brexit t...
UK fracking set to resume today after seven-year break
FRACKING is set to restart in the UK today after a High Court judge dismissed a last-minute legal...
Worker killed at South Africa power plant
ONE worker has been killed and another seriously injured after a pipe supplying pressurised steam...
Ineos picks McDermott for new PDH unit
INEOS has awarded McDermott a contract for the licence and engineering of a new propane dehydroge...
Eleven die in fire at India steel plant
ELEVEN people have been killed in a fire at a steel plant in Bhilai, India.
Explosion shuts down Canada’s largest refinery
AN explosion has shut down Canada’s largest refinery, operated by Irving Oil in Saint Paul, New B...
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals renamed Nouryon
AKZONOBEL Specialty Chemicals has been renamed Nouryon following its sale to the Carlyle Croup an...
IChemE set to leave London premises
ICHEME has formally announced that it will leave its London premises at One Portland Place this m...
UN climate experts warn society must make unparalleled shift
LIMITING global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid and unprecedented changes to society, UN climate ...
Caltech chemical engineer Frances Arnold wins Nobel Prize
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pione...
BASF and LetterOne agree to merge oil interests
GERMANY’S BASF and LetterOne have agreed to merge their oil and gas subsidiaries Wintershall and ...
Chemical engineer to brief parliamentarians on chemical weapons
JENNIFER Spragg, a postgraduate student in bioenergy at the University of Leeds, UK, will advise ...
Shell sets methane reduction target
SHELL has said it will reduce methane leaks by installing new equipment at its operations, as the...
IChemE chair meets Malaysian minster to promote expert input
THE chair of IChemE’s Malaysia board, Christina Phang, has met with the country’s new energy mini...
UK’s largest bioethanol facility set to close
VIVERGO FUELS has said it is looking to close the UK’s largest bioethanol plant by the end of Sep...
GHD becomes IChemE Silver Corporate Partner
GHD has been awarded Silver Corporate Partner status by IChemE.
Landmark Piper Alpha Cullen report now free to download
THE Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha disaster is now available to download for free from the He...
Exxon mulls new multi-billion-dollar chemicals complex in China
EXXONMOBIL is considering building a multi-billion-dollar chemicals complex in China’s Guangdong ...
Equinor floats plan to power oil platforms with wind
NORWAY could become the first country to directly connect an offshore wind farm to oil and gas pl...
No deal Brexit will hit chemicals sector hard, government warns
THE UK Chancellor has warned that the chemicals sector will be one of the hardest hit by a ‘no de...
CCS could fuel the fizz in UK lager
CARBON capture and storage (CCS) could fuel the fizz in UK lager and help guard against a future ...
Man killed in explosion at UK military plant
ONE man has been killed and another seriously injured in an explosion at a military hardware plan...
Johnson Matthey picks Clitheroe for next-gen battery plant
JOHNSON MATTHEY is building a demonstration- plant for production of next-generation lithium ion ...
Linde-Praxair merger in doubt following regulator demands
A MERGER to create the world’s largest industrial gases firm is in doubt after anti-trust authori...
Arkema and employees indicted for toxic cloud
ARKEMA, its CEO and the manager of the plant in Texas that caught fire after Hurricane Harvey bat...
IChemE succeeds in lobbying HSE to make Piper Alpha report free
ICHEME has successfully lobbied the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) to waive the £70 (US$91) cost...
Worn valve may have caused Husky refinery blast
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has said that a deteriorated valve may have caused the explosi...
Fine investment: coal miner and oil trader invest in novel coal-to-fuel developer
VITOL and Peabody Energy have invested US$20m in a firm that has developed technology that it say...
Linde sells American businesses for Praxair merger
LINDE has agreed to sell its industrial gas businesses in North and South America for US$3.3bn as...
Dangote signs deal for world-scale Nigeria refinery
AFRICA’S richest man, Aliko Dangote, has agreed a US$650m loan to build the world’s largest singl...
12 injured in Cairo chemicals blast
TWELVE people have been injured in an explosion at a chemicals storage site in Egypt.
19 killed in blast at Chinese chemicals plant
AN explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant has killed 19 people and injured 12 others.
ABB warns chemical firms must invest in digitalisation
ABB has warned that unless the leaders of chemical companies embrace the Industrial Internet of T...
BASF signs MoU for a US$10bn Verbund chemicals site in China
BASF is considering building a new highly-integrated – or ‘Verbund’ – chemicals site in Guangdong...
Shift at the top signals mega-merger between Chinese chemicals giants
THE head of Sinochem will also take over at ChemChina in a move expected to signal the long-rumou...
Ineos will build Europe’s first new cracker for 20 years
INEOS will invest €2.7bn (US$3.1bn) to build a new ethane cracker and propane dehydrogenation uni...
Chemicals blast kills one in Japan
AN EXPLOSION at a chemicals plant in Japan on 2 July has killed one worker and injured at least a...
UK outlines £200m nuclear sector deal
THE UK government has unveiled a £200m (US$262m) deal in partnership with the nuclear industry th...
Green ammonia project set for launch in UK today
SIEMENS will launch a demonstration project in the UK today to showcase the potential of using ‘g...
Blubber breakthrough: MIT engineers increase wetsuit survivability
MIT chemical engineer Michael Strano has helped develop a treatment for wetsuits that protects di...
Initiative seeks to unlock potential of health and safety data
HSE has teamed up with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation to develop new techniques aimed at sifting...
CO2 shortage sparks concerns over food and drinks supplies
BEER, fizzy drinks, and poultry supplies are at risk of disruption in the UK following a shortage...
Militia causes catastrophic damage at Libyan oil port
AN ARMED assault has caused catastrophic damage to two oil storage tanks at the Ras Lanuf termina...
Queen honours Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham Hutchings and Jim Ratcliffe
THE QUEEN has awarded birthday honours to four members of IChemE: Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham H...
Piper Alpha conference: Chrysaor CEO issues list of challenges to oil industry
PHIL KIRK, CEO of Chrysaor, has issued challenges to the oil industry community at a UK conferenc...
Piper Alpha conference: oil industry urged to maintain a chronic sense of unease
THE oil and gas community has been urged to “maintain a chronic sense of unease” at a conference ...
IChemE governance reforms pass at AGM
MEMBERS have voted in support of a package of reforms that will modernise IChemE’s governance and...
IChemE awards engineers for their work on process safety
SEVEN chemical engineers have been awarded medals for their outstanding contributions to process ...
STEM outreach group warns about UK skills shortage
A SHORTAGE of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills is costing UK businesses £...
That’s the spirit: chemical engineer develops flexible micro-distillery
A CHEMICAL engineer from the University of Queensland has created a new type of micro distillery ...
Norway outlines funding for full-chain CCS demonstration project
NORWAY’S efforts to develop a full-chain CCS demonstration project have been boosted by governmen...
Abu Dhabi outlines US$45bn plan to become key downstream chemicals player
IN a bid to diversify its economy away from oil production, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (A...
Philip Aldridge shares his plans as new NEPIC CEO
PHILIP ALDRIDGE, an IChemE member who has taken over as CEO of England’s Northeast Process Indust...
Takeda and Shire agree £46bn takeover
TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL has agreed to buy Shire for £46bn (US$62bn) as it seeks to create a global ...
Fire at US speciality chemicals plant
A CHEMICAL plant in Louisiana, US, has caught fire, with no injuries reported.
Gladden to lead EPSRC
CHEMICAL engineer Lynn Gladden will be the next executive chair of the Engineering and Physical S...
KBR wins contract for Saudi Arabia’s crude-oil-to-chemicals complex
KBR has been named the second project management contractor for the design of Saudi Aramco and SA...
Marathon Andeavor tie-up will create largest US refiner
MARATHON PETROLEUM has agreed to buy Andeavor in a US$36bn deal that will create the largest US r...
Diversity and pharma awards added to IChemE programme
ICHEME has added two new categories to its Global Awards programme: the Pharma Award and the Dive...
Offshore industry has come “perilously close to disaster”, warns HSE
HSE has warned the UK’s offshore oil and gas operators that they must do more to tackle hydrocarb...
BASF agrees to buy Bayer’s vegetable seeds business for €1.7bn
BAYER has agreed to sell its entire vegetable seeds business to BASF for €1.7bn (US$2bn), as it s...
One seriously injured in Wisconsin refinery blast
AN explosion at a Husky Energy-owned oil refinery in the US has reportedly injured at least 15 pe...
200 gather to celebrate engineering excellence in the Northwest of England
MORE than 200 engineers gathered in Manchester, UK, earlier this month to celebrate excellence in...
Shire recommends Takeda takeover offer
SHIRE has opened the door to a £46bn (US$64bn) takeover bid from Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical.
P&G agrees to buy Merck’s consumer healthcare business
PROCTER & GAMBLE has agreed to buy German drugmaker Merck’s consumer healthcare unit for €3.4bn (...
Clouds defeated: real-time control system boosts solar chemicals production
CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes o...
Explosion hits Valero’s Texas City refinery
AN explosion and fire has hit Valero Energy’s 225,000 bbl/d Texas City refinery, with no injuries...
Liveris donates A$13.5m to build new engineering building at University of Queensland
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris has donated A$13.5m to his alma matar the University of Queensla...
Piper Alpha Monopoly sparks backlash
THE release of an edition of Monopoly that marks the anniversary of the tragic Piper Alpha oil pl...
Motiva joins forces with UOP and TechnipFMC to fuel push into petrochemicals
MOTIVA ENTERPRISES has signed MoUs with UOP and TechnipFMC worth as much as US$10bn to explore us...
Unilever joins forces with Ioniqa to scale up breakthrough plastic waste recycling process
UNILEVER has formed a partnership with processing pioneer Ioniqa and Indorama, the world’s larges...
IChemE makes new editions of top chemical engineering books available to members
A RANGE of new titles, including recently updated editions of Coulson & Richardson’s Chemical Eng...
UK pay gap shows scale of male senior dominance
KEY employers of chemical engineers in the UK have published their gender pay gap information but...
Santos agrees to takeover talks with Harbour Energy
HARBOUR ENERGY has made a A$13.5bn (US$10.4bn) bid for Australian oil and gas producer Santos.
Takeda mulls bid for Shire
JAPAN’S Takeda Pharmaceutical has revealed it is considering a bid for Ireland’s Shire as it seek...
Nestlé launches first product containing breakthrough form of sugar
NESTLÉ has announced it is launching its first product containing a new form of natural sugar tha...
Saudi Aramco and Petronas reach deal on Rapid complex
SAUDI ARAMCO has agreed a deal to take joint ownership of Petronas’ refinery currently under cons...
AkzoNobel announces buyer for specialty chemicals business
AKZONOBEL is selling its specialty chemicals business to The Carlyle Group and Singapore’s sovere...
200 GW: Saudi Arabia plans world’s largest solar development
SAUDI ARABIA and Japan’s Softbank have agreed to build the world’s largest solar power project, w...
Easter eggsperts: chemical engineers have chocolate eco-ratings licked
AS we peel the foil off our Easter eggs this Sunday, chemical engineers are urging us to consider...
GSK buys Novartis out of consumer healthcare venture
GSK will pay US$13bn to take full control of its consumer healthcare venture with Novartis.
Distinguished chemical engineers join QE Prize panel
TWO chemical engineers - Jinghai Li and Raghunath Anant Mashelkar – have joined the judging panel...
AkzoNobel joins Swedish green hydrogen partnership
AKZONOBEL has joined a partnership in Sweden that seeks to use excess renewable power to produce ...
Blood-testing 'disruptor' charged with fraud
THE CEO and former-president of Theranos – a company which claimed to have developed technology t...
Two injured, one feared dead in Texas chemicals blast
TWO workers have been injured and one remains missing following an explosion at a chemicals plant...
Liveris to step down as chair of DowDuPont in April
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris will step down in April as executive chair of DowDuPont, the hol...
Nuclear fusion is 15 years away from reality, say MIT engineers
FUSION power – the clean energy technology wryly said to always be 30 years from reality – could ...
Three killed in chemicals blast at Indian industrial site
AT least three people are dead after an explosion in a chemical factory in the Maharashtra Indust...
UK must remain within REACH as it exits EU
ICHEME has backed calls for the UK to remain within the EU’s chemicals regulation (REACH) despite...
BASF in exclusive talks to buy Bayer’s vegetable seeds business
BAYER is in talks to sell its entire vegetable seeds business to BASF as it seeks to address anti...
Exxon’s algae biofuel venture enters new phase, targeting 10,000 bbl/d
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics are starting field trails for their joint algae...
Shell shows scale of work underway at Geismar expansion
SHELL has released photos showing its progress building the world’s largest alpha olefins product...
Members announced for new trustee candidate review committee
ICHEME has announced the six members of a new committee that has been formed to ensure that trust...
Wan Zulkiflee will head Petronas for another three years
ICHEME Fellow Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee Wan Arrifin has had his contract as CEO of Petronas extended ...
DNV GL opens centre to catalyse 3D printing in oil and gas industry
DNV GL has set up an R&D centre in Singapore to accelerate the use of 3D-printed technology by th...
CB&I to design world’s largest methanol plant
CB&I has been awarded a contract for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of the world’s l...
Ineos restarts Forties system after unexpected shutdown
INEOS has restarted the UK’s Forties Pipeline after the closure of a valve forced a shutdown of t...
Green steel process given go ahead for testing at pilot scale
AN INDUSTRIAL consortium in Sweden will build a pilot plant to test a steel production process th...
ExxonMobil expects to pump out majority of its oil, even in a low-carbon future
EXXONMOBIL says there is little risk that climate change policies will force it to leave its prov...
Emerson to keep an eye on Covestro plants to boost operations
EMERSON will install industrial internet of things (IIoT) technologies at Covestro production pla...
Australia must act now to own big downstream battery opportunity
AUSTRALIA’S government has been urged to act now if it wants domestic industry to push downstream...
Edinburgh launches world-first free online course on CCS
THE University of Edinburgh has launched the world’s first open online course about CCS and is of...
Australia honours IChemE Fellows
CHEMICAL engineers Russell Scott and David Wood have been awarded Member in the General Division ...
Fire engulfs Taiwan refinery
AN explosion at an oil refinery in Taiwan set off a fire yesterday that took hours to extinguish.
Genomatica and Aquafil join forces to make bio-based nylon
GENOMATICA is working with nylon-maker Aquafil to produce one of its key feedstocks – caprolactam...
SABIC becomes largest shareholder in Clariant
SABIC has become the largest shareholder in specialty chemicals company Clariant. The Saudi chemi...
Bread alert: chemical engineers reveal worst sandwiches for the climate
DO you want to do your bit for the climate at lunchtime? If so, chemical engineers say you should...
Evonik and Siemens announce two-year plan to create 'technical photosynthesis'
EVONIK and Siemens are working together on a process to produce specialty chemicals from carbon d...
Shale gas ruled one of the least sustainable options for power
SHALE gas is one of the least sustainable options for producing electricity, according to a new s...
Shell commits to Penguins North Sea investment
SHELL will redevelop the Penguins oil and gas field 240 km northeast of the Shetland Islands, a p...
UNSW signs deal to become world’s first solar university
THE University of New South Wales (UNSW) has signed an agreement to become the world’s first whol...
Noël wins DECHEMA prize for his leaf-inspired microreactors
CHEMICAL engineer Timothy Noël has been awarded the 2017 DECHEMA Prize for his pioneering work on...
Burning oil tanker sinks off China
AN oil tanker that had been ablaze since it collided with a freight ship in the East China Sea on...
EGM delivers vote of confidence in IChemE Council
ICHEME’s membership has delivered a strong vote of confidence in the current leadership at an ext...
New method weeds out flipping drugs
A NEW method has been developed to help drug developers weed out compounds that could potentially...
Huge oil tanker ablaze off China
AN oil tanker is on fire and at risk of exploding after colliding with a freight ship off the eas...
UK’s largest bioethanol facility shuts down in face of political instability
THE UK’s largest bioethanol producer has halted production at its plant in East Yorkshire, blamin...
Emerson quits chasing Rockwell
EMERSON ELECTRIC has abandoned its pursuit of Rockwell Automation following a forceful rejection ...
Saudi giants agree to develop largest oil-to-chemicals complex
SAUDI ARAMCO and SABIC have agreed to develop plans for the world’s largest crude oil-to-chemical...
Government outlines plan to make UK world’s most innovative nation
THE UK government has published its long-awaited Industrial Strategy as it seeks to boost industr...
Rockwell forcefully rejects Emerson takeover bid
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION has rejected a third takeover offer from Emerson Electric, arguing that the d...
Musk bet set to pay off as South Australia readies world’s largest lithium ion battery
ELON MUSK looks set to win the bet he made with South Australia, after the state’s premier announ...
Emerson returns with US$29bn bid for Rockwell
EMERSON ELECTRIC has increased its offer for Rockwell Automation to US$29bn.
Video: CSB releases detailed animation of Arkema incident
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a detailed animation of the events leading to the...
Saudi Aramco signs ‘diversification’ deals worth US$4.5bn
SAUDI ARAMCO has signed eight agreements, worth around US$4.5bn, with oil and gas service contrac...
Rockwell says no to Emerson offer
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION has rejected a takeover offer worth around US$28bn from Emerson Electric.
IChemE Singapore joins unique alliance on skills certification
ICHEME SINGAPORE has joined a unique alliance with the country’s government and industrial trade ...
AkzoNobel in talks to merge with Axalta
AKZONOBEL has confirmed it is in talks about merging its paints and coating business with Axalta ...
ENGIE Fabricom selected to design and build novel Saltend chemical plant
ENGIE Fabricom has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for ...
Clariant and Huntsman merger dissolves under investor pressure
CLARIANT and Huntsman have cancelled their proposed US$20bn merger following pressure from activi...
Singapore will use advanced manufacturing to cement chemicals future
SINGAPORE has put innovation and building skills at the heart of a new strategy to boost its ener...
UK sets out green growth plans
THE UK government has outlined a raft of plans for low-carbon investment, setting out how £2.5bn ...
Bright ideas: Rakesh Agrawal on developing a solar economy
RAKESH AGRAWAL, chemical engineering professor at Purdue University, speaks on camera to The Chem...
IChemE’s top journal reviewers recognised at WCCE10
A CEREMONY has been held in Spain to celebrate the top reviewers of IChemE’s journals.
EFCE honours individuals and team that developed 3D-printed reactor
THE European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) has today announced the winners of a serie...
CGN bids for stake in UK’s Moorside nuclear project
CGN is bidding for a stake in the UK’s planned Moorside nuclear plant following the financial tro...
Solvay sells polyamide business to BASF
SOLVAY is selling its integrated polyamides business to BASF for €1.6bn (US$1.92bn) as it continu...
First hole cut in the world’s oldest nuclear waste store
THE WORLD’S oldest nuclear store – containing waste untouched since the dawn of the UK’s atomic w...
Arkema sets fire to remaining chemicals stocks at flooded site
All nine chemical containers have ignited at the flooded Arkema plant in Crosby, outside Houston,...
CBI gathers CEOs to give voice to makers
THE UK’S CBI has established a new CEO-level Manufacturing Council to ensure that the voices of c...
Zoey Clark wins silver in relay finals
CHEMICAL engineer Zoey Clark won a silver medal for Britain in the women’s 4x400 m relay at the I...
Tata Steel fined £1m for toxic release
TATA STEEL has been fined £1m (US$1.3m) after five employees were exposed to a toxic gas release ...
Record-breaking column erected by PETRONAS
PETRONAS has released photos showing the installation of a record-breaking crude distillation col...
Call for UK industry to pioneer hydrogen use
INDUSTRY in the Northwest of England should pioneer the use of hydrogen fuel, according to an amb...
Aaron Low awarded travel fellowship
ICHEME Member Aaron Low has won the 2017 Earle Travel Fellowship. The award encourages New Zealan...
Should maintenance KPIs be standardised?
PETROFAC is conducting a safety study that could recommend that the upstream oil and gas industry...
Amec Foster Wheeler wins Donges upgrade FEED
AMEC FOSTER WHEELER has been awarded a FEED contract to help upgrade Total’s Donges refinery in F...
Rise of incinerators risks circular economy
A SURGE in the construction of facilities that burn residual waste is a direct threat to the UK a...
Engineers dispel 100-year fluid flow law
A 100-YEAR law used to describe how fluid flows through rocks has been overturned by engineers at...
Hydrogen-powered boat begins six-year journey
SEEKING to raise awareness of the promise of hydrogen fuel, a converted racing boat equipped to p...
PSE becomes IChemE Gold Corporate Partner
PROCESS SYSTEMS ENTERPRISE (PSE) is the first process engineering software company to become an I...
Evonik plans €100m digital investment
EVONIK has earmarked €100m (US$114m) for investment in digitalisation by 2020 and formed strategi...
South Australia calls Musk on storage bet
SOUTH AUSTRALIA has called Elon Musk on a bet he made in March, and has challenged the billionair...
Roadtrip fuelled on whisky waste
PROCESS developers are celebrating a roadtrip fuelled by whisky waste.
Consider treating unused desal filters
A BIOFOULING study that has examined colonies of bacteria on membranes suggests desalination plan...
Lithium promotes hot plasma edge for fusion
LITHIUM could hold the key to improving the confinement of plasma in fusion reactors, and ensurin...
Evonik and Sinopec partner on OSN
EVONIK and the SINOPEC Beijing Research Institute of the Chemical Industry (BRICI) have agreed to...
Kemper clean coal opts for gas instead
IN a blow to clean coal development, the Kemper County power plant in the US has been forced to a...
Hack hits Chernobyl monitoring system
RADIATION monitoring systems at the Chernobyl nuclear plant have been put out of action by a rans...
GTI will demo R-GAS gasification in China
GAS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (GTI) in the US will be partnering with China’s Yangquan Coal Industry G...
France to ban oil exploration
FRANCE plans to pass a law later this year to stop granting licences for oil and gas exploration ...
Rio Tinto picks Yancoal again
RIO TINTO has snubbed a second Glencore bid for its Australian coal assets, choosing Chinese mine...
PMI invests US$320m in smoke-free factory
CIGARETTES giant Philip Morris (PMI) has unveiled plans to build a US$320m facility to produce sm...
Notts Uni to reprogramme chemicals production
GREEN chemicals are a focus of a new £200m (US$253m) investment announced by the UK’s University ...
Industry supports US carbon tax
EXXONMOBIL is among a number of industry giants that have backed plans for a US carbon tax design...
Rio Tinto picks Yancoal for Aussie coal mines
RIO TINTO has snubbed an offer from Glencore for its thermal coal assets in Australia, sticking i...
Exxon and partner double algae oil output
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics have announced a breakthrough in biofuels resea...
Celanese and Blackstone form acetate tow JV
CELANESE is forming a joint venture with Blackstone to create a global acetate tow supplier – as ...
Amec Foster Wheeler wins gold EPC
AMEC FOSTER WHEELER has won the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for one ...
Solar paint turns wall into a fuel station
ONE day, fuel stations could become little more than a wall coated with a special catalytic paint...
Chemeng Matters in Parliament
MORE than 100 specially-invited guests gathered at the UK’s Houses of Parliament in December to s...
